ON EVE OF FIRST ARGUMENT DEBATERS DEPLORE NEGLECT

The Debating Union will meet for the first time this fall at 8 o'clock this evening in the Faculty Room of the Harvard Union. Six selected speakers will debate the question, "Resolved, That Harvard should be more collegiate," and then opportunity will be given members of the audience to speak.

When interviewed last night, members of the committee heading the Debating Union deplored the facilities given this extra curriculum activity, saying:

"Both faculty and students agree that there is a need in Harvard for a Debating Union which shall give inexperienced speakers an opportunity of talking before an audience, without having to compete in preliminary trials with trained debaters. At the same time it must give all students a chance to express their own views in a more or less informal manner on subjects in which they have real interest and definite opinions without the necessity for extended research. The present organization of the Debating Union is offered to meet this need. But there are obstacles. The University offers no housing facilities or no financial support, and a merger with the Harvard Union would deprive the Debating Union of its independence and exclude many from the debates. Other colleges have provided quarters for an organization of this kind. Cannot Harvard make some provision for this activity?"