The members of the Sophomore Debating Club can feel with justice that by their steady work thus far they have been of distinct service to Harvard debating. Organized as scarcely more than an experiment, the support the club has received has proved that there is much good debating material unprovided for by the present organizations and courses.

To speak of its services to Freshman debating, almost the existence of a Freshman club rests on the interest aroused by rivalry with some other organization, and now that Yale freshman debates are forbidden some definite adversary is needed to keep the men up to their best work and render the club as good a training ground as possible. This service the Sophomore Club has thus far well rendered, and the importance of continuing the good work must be recognized. In its contests with the Freshman Club it labors under the disadvantage of having its honorary members who are on either the Forum or the Union debarred from taking part, but notwithstanding this the showing made in the first interclub debate was most creditable. Tonight's trial is the preliminary step toward the second contest and is an opportunity for the Sophomore debaters to show that they intend to set the precedent for a lasting and useful institution.