Members of the University will be given an opportunity to suggest topics for discussion under the plan just adopted by the Debating Union. A bluebook has been posted in the Union wherein topics of general argumentative interest may be inscribed. It is expected thus to obviate such embarrassing situations as that of the great football debate last fall. Major Cavanaugh, then coach of Boston College, said that for him to attempt, a defense of football where the question was worded: "Resolved, That this house deplores the present over-emphasis of football" was to espouse a lost cause.
UNDERGRADUATES TO CHOOSE TOPICS FOR DEBATING UNION
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