FRESHMAN DEBATING CLUB ELECTS HARDING PRESIDENT

The newly formed Freshman debating club has elected its permanent officers. They are John Francis Harding '30 president, Francis Beattle Thurber 3rd, '30, vice-president and Arthur Menkle Silverblatt '30 secretary.

The first informal discussion which was held early this week was on the war debts and their possible cancelation. 25 members reported and it was announced that the total enrollment of the club had risen to well over 40 men. Among these are numbered practically all of the Freshman debating team, and the club has grown to such proportions that the team realized that union with it was its only possible step. A committee of four; F. P. Bowden Jr., F. S. Jennison, C. T. Wheeler, and A. M. Silverblatt, will frame a question for the next meeting's debate.

At a meeting of the executive board of the Freshman class held yesterday afternoon it was decided that the Freshman debating club would be made a regular Freshman activity on a par with other such organizations.