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The Student.:--The Lord
me a sinner.
A. B. L.
THE HESPERIAN.
he merciful to
-My ears are no longer than
yours.
Prof. Wilson: If the Senior girl will sit
in the front seat and the Fresh, boy in the
psych! At last!
Keene: I am not mad, I am not mad.
Wo Jones- We will now devote fifteen
minutes to the production of literature.
In assigning ranks, the language of the de
bater shall count twenty points in a scale of
one hundred; ready and effective extempore
delivery, twenty points; effect produced, ten
points; logical character of the speech, fifty
points. Judges will see that no ties in any
rear neither will have trouble in keeping the single debate are reported to the committee.
place. XVI. Any judge in a preliminary debate
Sherman: Whoop! I got a pass mark in may be objected to by any one-fourth of the
contestants in that debate by any judge in
the final trial debate by a single debater. If
such objection is filed with the committee at
least one week before the debate, the com
mittee shall appoint another judge to replace
the one objected to.
XVII. These provisions may be amended
at any time by a two-thirds vote of the com
mittee. WHAT YOU WILL
T is something of an art to know how to
keep ones temper in a big crowd, a
political crowd especially. When you
sit for two solid hours on a hard
board with your knees jammed into
a fat man's back and a lean man's
man's knees jammed into your back, and
listen to the most convincing logic on the
Do you want him now?
-Well, I don't know: do you?
Bless my soul!
M. : Do you want to join
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Miss C. :
Miss S. : -G.
E. H.
Miss A. M.: Do you want to join my
fraternity?
Basso Profundo: We do!
Miss G. M.: Yes Sir! Pig and I got the
paper out ourselves this week.
Miss F. B. : The people who come up at
recess to critize Pall programs make me
tired.
Miss M. C.: O! you'd better let your
name go in tonight.
Chorus of Readers: Say, ring off.
JOINT DEBATE.
YjNEBATERS in the preliminary contest wrong side of the question, you are only
$S1 m Kansas are chosen from the debat- human if you take every opportunity to let
C&&6 ing societies of that institution. They your neighboring sardines know how uncom-
have a series of debates governed;by the fol- fortable you are. But it doesn't pay. It
lowing rules for which we are indebted to pays to be jolly, to take it as easy as may be,
the Students' Journal: to "get down in front" when you are deli-
XIII. At each debate, each speaker shall cately requested to, to know when to clap
have two speeches. He shall be allowed and when to laugh, when to hiss for it has
nine minutes for his opening speech, and to be done sometimes, it seems and when
three minutes tor his second speech in rebut- to look glum. It pays to sit there and think,
tal. The opening speeches shall be delivered when the orator's rant wearies you, what an
in the order assigned, and the rebuttals shall infinitesimal speck you are on this earth, how
follow in the same order. For each debate very unimportant it is whether you agree
not otherwise provided for, the committee with any one else or not. The main thing to
shah appoint a presiding officer, who shall everyone around you is that you behave your-
act as time-keeper. self with consideration for them; that is a
XIV In every trial debate, the sides and ' man's first duty in a crowd. These reflect-
order of speakers shall be determined by lot ions were induced by the observation that
and announced twenty-four hours before the the university crowd at the big Bryan-
,lw- -I,- -!.,,. n,l nn nnrlier. Thurston debate was not only the best look-
YV iHr,c chnll he instructed to use the ing and the most enthusiastic part
following system in preparing their reports; assembly as usual, but
of the
the best
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