The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-18
N, j, DEBATING BOARD
ARRANGES CONTESTS
Schedule For This Year In
cludes Kansas, Oklahoma
and Washington.
TO MEET K. U. FIRST
Limitation of immigration Is
to Be Chief Subject of
Debates.

The intercollegiate Debating Board
of the University met Saturday and
arranged for the following schedule
for this year:
March 5-Kansas VS. Missouri, at
Lawrence.
March 12-Oklahoma VS.. Missouri,
at Columbia.
March Washington VS.. Missou-
ri, at st. Louis.
The board refused to arrange
triangular debating contest with
Washington and Drake, having ac-
cepted the single debate with Wash
ington. 1t also refused to accept the
challenge of the Kansas City Junior
College.
The subject for debate with two
limitations as submitted to Missouri
by Oklahoma was accepted, Missouri
choosing the affirmative side. The
subject is:
Resolved that the government
should adopt the policy of prohibiting
immigration to the United States for
a period of five years." The limita-
tions are: % by the term policy is
meant a law, which, while carrying
out the spirit of the revolution will
allow for those rare exceptions, which
are essential to every rule. (2) 1t is
agreed for the purpose of this debate
that there shall be no counter-pro-
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crease in the time limit for the pro-
hibiting of immigration"
The subject that Missouri will sub
init to the University of Kansas and
Washington University is:
Resolved that immigration is so
detrimental to the economic interest
of the American people that its prac-
teal prohibition for a period of five
years is desirable
This subject is also subject to the
same limitations as the subject sub
mitted by Oklahoma. Each side is to
have three speakers. and ten minutes
is to be given for the main argument
and five minutes for the rebuttal.
Try.0uts December 5.6.
The try-outs are to be held in the
University Auditorium Friday and
Saturday, December 5 and 6. They
will begin Friday afternoon at 1
o'clock and continue until o'clock,
and will be resumed Saturday morn
ing at s o'clock and continue through
out the day until all of the contestants
have received their try-outs.
Prof. Humphreys Springstun who is
appointed coach for this year, will ap-
point three judges to select the debat-
ing squads at the try-outs. Each con-
testant will be heard only once and
may not hear any other contestant.
Each contestant may choose either
side of either of the above questions
for his speech, and will be allowed
seven minutes. Each person whi trys
out must submit to the coach, Room
ZIG, Academic Hall, before o'clock
Thursday afternoon, December 4, in
blue book brief on the question
he chooses to speak upon. On the
front of this book the contestant must
place his name and age, give his year
in school and the school in which he
is registered, list his previous expert
ence, if any, in debating and public
speaking, and state what hour he will
be able to appear. Each contestant,
who does not belong to either of the
debating societies must, upon submit
ting the blue book, pay the coach a
fee of fifty cents, the treasurers OF
the debating societies paying the fee
for the member of their respective So
cieties who contest.
At 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon
December 4, Professor Springstun
will post on the door of his office, the
list of names of contestants and the
time for them to appear. The office is
Room ZIG, Academic Hail. Lists will
also appear on each of the debating
bulletin boards just outside of the
University Auditorium.
Board Has Student Members.
The members of the Intercollegiate
Debating Board that have been ap-
pointed by the Board of Curators for
this year are: Prof. ]. w. Hudson
chairman, Prof. Humphreys Springs
tun, coach, Prof. H. G. Brown, Prof
F. NJ. Tisdel, and c. A. Powell and
John L. Gaylord, student members.
Prof. Humphreys Springston of the
English department, who was ap-
pointed coach this year is practically
new man to the University of Mis-
sopri. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan, and has done
graduate work in both the University
of Chicago and the University of IL
linois. He has had much experience
in debating and public speaking, and
is we'll qualified to act as coach for
the debating squads
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