Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-26
AT BOWDOIN.
Plans For Fall Track
Meet, Saturday.
Unusual Interest, This Fall. in
the Debating Courses.
Football Team Leaves for Providence
to Play Brown, Today.

Brunswick, Me. Oct 25.-(SpeciaD.-
The annual fam track meet at Bowdom
Will take place on the Whittier field
Saturday afternoon Of this week. This
ANA is designed for the purpose of
developing the material and keeping up
the interest in the track athletics
preparatory to the intercollegiate meet
which will be held. next sprnig, among
the Maine colleges.
COHC n IathrOp. who has been Bow
dOinS track coach for the past rev
years. helping turn out its champIon-
ship teams. has been here this fall ANA
the meet which is to take place, Sattlr-
day. will BE- under his direction ana
that If Captain Denniu% Of tn" track
team. The meet will b.. 4 handich"
meet, and it is exp-..,r,i thar there vii!
he a guoHly list Of e,tri's for 1he dil-
ferent events by the time the entries
ar" all completed.
The. occasion will doubtless he an in
tc!Dsting one. Systematic W,rk has
been nut in by the different men. ana
while the events will not. of course.
bring out the material as does state
track meet. it will nevertheless be an
attractive one for those who are inter
tStt.l in track athletics and care To see
what the BoWdoin material viii be Ike
ut the next intercollegiate meet. Pro-
grams Will be prep-Irrd and Il small adj
mission Will he charged sufficient to
meet the incidental expenses of the
meet.
The debating courses, which were
opened at BoWdoin. this fall. for the
first time as regular courses, are prov
| ing to be a most successful branch OF
study at the college. and large num-
Der of men in college are electing the
! course There are between 80 and 60
| men in the courses 1T the present time.
which is considered Il gOodly number
for a course which has just been opened
and one with which men are so
largely unacQuainted. The number of
men taking the course are divided into
two sections and meet twice each week
one division Monday evening, one
Tuesday evening. and both divisions
together on Thursday evening. The
meetings are held in Hubbard hall.
Conferences are held with the instruc-
tor at different times. A conference
for the choice Of q subject may be held
three weeks before the debate. a con-
ference for the submitting of briefs one
week before the debate in which the
men are to participate. Men who de-
sire preliminary practice in deliverance
may also confer with the instructor one
| week before the debate. General con-
| ferences are held between the hours OF
and II A. NJ. on Tuesdays and Thurs
| days.
Tn, four chief disputants for each
! debate are required to be present Whan
! the. subject is chosen and when the
! brief Is submitted. If man Is absent
i from a conference he is considered as
| nnelecting the work of the course.
| Each member is required to speak from
| the floor at least once in three weeks.
| Students are expected to attend the
! debates Of their sections. Attendance
| at other debates is voluntary. Mem
! hers are considered present who stay
! from the beginning to the end OF the
! debate. Each main speaker is allowed
| ten minutes for his main speech am
! FIVE prinutes for his rehuttal speech.
! The affirmative side opens and closes
| the debate The different men taxing
the course appointed as presiding ON
Ger at different times during the TERM
| so that each man has an opportunity
| to preside at least once over d debate
| during the term.
The debates for the term are dlVldeo
| into two series. During this time there
| are raguldr scheduled debates. 1here
| as a printed schedule on which every
| man taking the course has debate at
| a certain GATE and which occurs ac-
| cording to schedule the same as an!
| recitation of college course. Al the
end of the series there is an intersec-
| ton debate between the two DIVISIONS
the disputants for which appointment
| is male.
The football team left for Providence
! on the AS train. this afternoon. where
| il will meet the Brown eleven. tomor-
row. The Bowdoin eleven does not
expec: to win the game, as it is known
that the Brown team has greatly inn
| proVed within the last few weeks from