LANCE shall be able to continually raise its standard and
enjoy a future of prosperity.
ALTHOUGH the time for holding our intercollegiate debate
with Franklin and Marshall College is three months hence,
it is hoped that those who are interested in these debates
and in the welfare of the College will enter the preliminary
work immediately. To win a debate means hard and serious
work, and when the nature of the two colleges is considered,
it becomes manifest that if we are to win, some hard work
must be done. Our teams in the past years, while meeting
some defeats, have showed themselves . to be worthy oppon
ents of our rival colleges, and no doubt with a little more
effort we shall soon occupy a higher place in this kind of
work.
In reference to the training of our team there should be
more help by the student body. When the football or base
ball teams are practicing, every man is urged to come out
and encourage the team by his presence at least. More thati
this, they have good scrub teams to battle against, which
show their own weak points. But how about our own
debating team? A few men who recognize the value of such
training and are serious, in their work, offer themselves to
maintain the reputation of the College. With untiring
efforts and many sacrifices they prepare their work and go
forward to meet their antagonists. If they suffer defeat, the
blame is in many cases put on the team. Now, it seems
that a warmer and a more healthful attitude should be
taken toward our debating team. The athletic teams cry
for more loyalty and enthusiasm to their work and they
justly deserve it; but the same should apply to the debating
organization. There should be at least one good second
team, if not a: few more. A question cannot be thoroughly
mastered unless both sides are developed simultaneously,
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