Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-24
Colby Debaters
Preparing TO Meet
RipOn College Team

SCtrCcly 4 Gay passed AFTER CODY .
double victory over the University Of
Maine in the dual debate held last
Friday evening in the Colby Chapel
and at Orono before the debating
squad started work on the PROPOSE
ton for the Colby Ripon debate that
is scheduled to be held on Thursday
evening, March 2, in Waterville. The
famous Ripon team has already left
Wisconsin and before arriving in
Waterville they will have encount-
cred four of their eastern rivals as
there are five colleges on the Ripon
schedule coming east. This will give
the men experience and by the time
they arrive in Waterville they ought
TO be able to put up a good fight.
Colby will uphold the proposition,
"Resolved: That the Veterans Ad-
Passed" Ripon will oppose it. The
Ripon team will be composed of the
following men: J. Harold Bumby,
Spencer Tracy and Curtis McDougall
Colby will be represented by the fol-
lowing men: Clifford Peaslee. '22, Of
Pittsfield, Mass; Stanley Goddard
Estes, %, Of Palermo, Maine; Arthur
Livingston Berry. '23, of Providence,
r. I. These men representing Colby
have never before taken part in in
tercollegiate debate, but all three
have been prize winners in various
public speaking contests of the COL
lege and will be sure to give excel
lent account Of themselves.
Immediately following the Ripon
debate, the proposition Of the closed
shop will again be taken up by the
debating squad. as this is the prop
osition to be discussed in the New
Hampshire Colby dual debate, in the
Clark-Colby dual debate, and in the
joint debates scheduled for the west
ern trip. The men selected to meet
New Hampshire State are Merton Il.
Laverty. "a. of Westbrook: Ashley
Lyndon Bickmore, '22. Of Charleston:
Basil b. Ames. '23, Of Norridgewock,
i'll Waterville. On the same evening,
in Durham, n. H.. the following Col
by men will oppose the proposition:
Asa Charles Adams of Linneus: For
rest Merle Royal, '23, OF Houlton:
George Bernard Wolstenholme. '22, of
Sydney Mines. N. B. The only
change in the list Of debatcrs as pre-
viously announced is that OF the
substitution of Bickmore. '22. for
Pinoinsky. '22, the latter having been
appointed to the Murray Prize Debate
to be held early in March.
New Debating Methods
This year marks a new departure
in intercollegiate debating at Colby.
Before this year from the long list OF
debating candidates one or two teams
of three men each have been selected
to represent Colby. Then these two
teams were put through long hard
training before appearing in public
contest. This method has shown it.
self to be very efficient and partly
accounts for the long string OF vic
tories that Colby has piled up in past
years. This year new course is Of
fered at Colby in intercollegiate de-
batting. BY the Introduction of this
course a dozen or more students are
given an opportunity to study debat-
ing. Recently there came the an
nouncement that instead Of selecting
three or six men to do all the debat-
ing in public, every man in the class
will be obliged to take part in at
least one public contest 1t is be-
lieved that this change is in the right
direction. In speaking Of the new
plan. Professor Herbert c. Libby. OF
the Public Speaking Department,
said: 1.-The policy behind the intercol-
legiate debate work in Colby will not
be policy OF winning of the debates