At a meeting yesterday afternoon the University Debating Council elected the following officers for the second half year: president, M. C. Leckner '07; vice-president, B. M. Nussbaum '08; secretary, H. Hurwitz '08; treasurer, F. Schenck '09; librarian, E. R. Lewis '08. D. Rosenblum '08, who was elected for the year, continues to act as debating manager.

Review of This Year's Debating.

Before the election the report of the President was read, in which he reviewed the work in University debating during the first half-year.

This year the debating work in the University has been in a period of transition. The management of the Council's affairs has passed from the hands of graduates almost entirely to undergraduates; debating for the first time has had a home--Dane Hall--in which all the debating interests and activities in the University have centred; the plan of raising the money necessary to carry on debating work by subscription was tried for the first time and proved sound--about $500 was collected, and this made possible the opening of the University debate with Yale to the public without admission charge; the debate was very successful and the University team secured the unanimous decision of the judges--and, lastly, the interclass debates have been supplanted by a system of inter-club debates.

This club debating has been carried on by the Agora and the Forum and the Freshman debating club. Each has a membership of about 50 men drawn from the graduate departments of the University and the three upper classes of the College and the Scientific School. These men have been divided into teams of four members each which have held debates on popular public questions and current questions of college interest. Two inter-club debates have been held, both of which have been won by the Agora.

A new schedule for the debates in both clubs will be made out by the officers who were recently elected for the next half-year up to the April recess. The final inter-club debate, at which the Pasteur Medal will be awarded, will be held in March.

The weekly debates of the Freshman debating club have been held between teams from the two "camps" into which the 70 members of the club are equally divided. This work will be continued until the April recess, when a debate will be held with the Yale freshmen or with some other college freshman club.