Revived Interest in Debating Results in Exhuming of English 30a, Abolished in 1916, for Second Half-Year

Increased interest in debating at Harvard is assigned as the reason for the revival of English 30a, to be given this year for the first time since 1916. The course will be given for the second half-year by Professor Henry B. Huntington of Brown University, it was announced yesterday.

At the time the course was abolished it was generally thought in the University that the reason for its discontinuance was President Lowell's disapproval. President Lowell, it was said, objected to the course on the ethical and moral ground that it was wrong to teach men of arguing both sides of the same question.

In giving the causes of the revival of the course, Professor Huntington yesterday called attention to its great practical value and the variety of its usefulness.

"On this account," he explained, "it is being revived this year when the interest in the visits of the debaters from Oxford and the discussions of the Harvard Debating Union seem to indicate the desire for systematic training in the principles and practice of debate."

The course is open without permission to those who take or have taken English 18. Permission will generally be given to those who shave shown, in college, ability in debating and discussion, and to those who received grades of distinction in English Composition, Economics, Government, or History.