The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-23
YALES DEBATING TEAM
MACFARLAND, STUDINSKI AND
CLARK IRE THE MEN.
They Make Strong Team-It VIII be a
Hard Fight-They viii Meet Harvard
Next Friday Night,

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Hard Fight-They viii Meet Harvard
Next Friday Night
Next Friday evening the annual for
ensc contest between Yale and Har-
ward will take place in Sanders the
alter, Cambridge 1t is exciting more
than usual interest. Harvard Is said
to have the strongest team she has ever
had. The same may be said of Yale.
The three Yale men are experienced de-
baters. They are picked men and won
their positions after passing through
two hard fought competitions. Mac
| farland, Studinski and Clark are all
about six feet in height and so in ad-
dition to their ability as disputants they
ance. The team will leave for Cam
bridge Thursday, and while in Boston
will be quartered at Young's hotel,
where the banquet will take place after
the debate. A delegation of Yale en-
thusiasts viii accompany the team.
have been working hard in preparation
for the event. 1t is generally under
stood that their preparation will be OBJ
| tanned this year with less faculty as
sistance than formerly, their training
being obtained chiefly from trial de-
bates against the alternates and other
| prominent members of the union Gpv-
ernor Roger Wolcott has been chosen
| to preside at the debate and the Judges
have, been selected as follows: Profess
sor D. r. Dewey of the Massachusetts,
| Institute of Technology, Professor f. II.
Giddngs of Columbia, and Judge e. A.
Aldrich of the United States court.
! Charles Stedman Mcfarland 81 T.
S., of Melrose Mass, prepared for
college at one of the public schools
of Boston. In school he had taken
| part in the public debates and prize
speaking, but received most of his
| training in the public institution
known as the Boston Young Mems
Congress, which has served to train
great many public speakers. After
| leaving there he went to the Young
Mems Congress of Melrose, of which
| institution he was on several occa-
sions chosen speaker. Since coming
to Yale he has taken an active part
in debating In his second year Mr..
Macfarland carried off the William II.
Fogg scholarship of $50, which is Of
! fered TO juniors Of the Divinity school,
During the last term he has held the
office of president of the Leonard Ba-
con club, of which he was one OF the
organizers. Last year he was alter
| nate in the Yale-H Harvard debate.
Charles Epson Clark 81 comes from
| Brooklyn, N Y. His training in de-
bate consists In what he has done in
| the way of speaking since coming to
/ college. In his freshman year he took
/ an active part in the freshman union,
! but had done no speaking in public be-
| fore the Princeton debate last year,
| in which he was adjudged the best un-
! dergraduate speaker and was awarded
the Thatcher prize of SIS. During the
fall term this year he has held the office
of president of the Yale union. He pre-
pared for college at the Brooklyn Poly
/ technc
Charles H. Stud nski '97 spent the first
4 two years of his college course at the
University of California and Joined the
/ class Of Yale '97 in the fall of '95. He
is class orator and president of Yale
union. Last year he was alternate in
the Yale Harvard debate. At the re-
cent final trials he was awarded the
Thatcher prize, being the best of the
debaters from the academical depart
ment.
Edward Hicks Hume 81 of Bombay
India, and Frank Patrick Caravan 81,
Of Hartford, Conn, We're chosen alter
mates.
With regard to the individual men
Macfarland's strength is said to lie in
his close reasoning and in his fluent
but forceful presentation, He is pow
erftl rather than graceful.
Studinski is oratorical and will make
a strong impression on the audience in
general.
Clark's strength is in discerning the
weak points in his opponents and in
meeting them.
Each man will handle the aspect of
the case best suited to his especial ap-
l titude. repetition of last years Yale
victory is hopefully looked for.