First Banquet of New Debating Club

The Harvard Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, a national society of college debaters, will hold its first annual banquet this evening at the Hotel Puritan, Boston. Judge A. P. Stone '93, Professor E. H. Warren '95, of the Harvard Law School, and R. W. Kelso '04, instructor in the Department of English, will speak informally after the dinner.

The purpose of the society is to encourage effective and sincere public speaking, and in this respect it occupies the same position with regard to debating and public address that the Phi Beta Kappa society occupies toward scholarship. Membership in the society is limited to those who have actually participated in an intercollegiate debating or public speaking contest. The society was nationally organized four years ago and now has twenty-one chapters including Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Brown, George Washington University, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan.

A large number of former Harvard debaters have sent applications for admission to membership in the Harvard chapter, and many of them will be present at the dinner this evening. As constituted at present, the Harvard chapter has eight active members, fifteen affiliated members, and forty associate members.