Evening star., 1924-05-26

some preliminary meeting in the
Another important phase Of this
system Of judging is that the Judges
rate the speakers rather than grade
them. This means that the speakers
are listed according TO their relative
merit as contraSted with one another
rather than IN relationship to some
ideal standard Of oratorical excel
lencc.
Grade the Speakers.
second and third place etc, for the
different speakers. They do not
take an ideal score of ono hundred
and grade the speakers 81. a5. 90. etc,
i'll re iation thereto.
"Where there are i've judges and
seven speakers, all of the latter be
ing very close to one another in
excellence. il is highly probable that
the majority system Of Judging
would result in hopeless deadlock.
Each judge might select 9 different
speaker for first place In such a
case it would be necessary to call in
emergency judges or eliminate some
of the contestants by lot. which
would obviously be unsatisfactory
and unfair
Under the lou-point total system
even such situation as that would
not prevent a clean-cut decision eventu-
ally. IF the first ballot failed to
designate the winner second ballot
persons tied. The low point system
would still be used in the balIoting
In reality the low point total sys-
TEN, when the judges are competent,
deslgnates the best sneaker with re-
lentjess accuracy.
BHH Score Planned.
Because the judges at the meeting
eminent of American citizens. the
opportunity to study their detailed
rating Of the speakers will be both
interesting and instructive. To that
end The Star will publish d box
score of the judicial ratings the
method being similar to that used in
base bali box score
Applications for tickets for the
meeting on the night of June s should
be made by Wednesday of this week
at the latest, it was announced to-
day. Applications may be sent to
room 440. The Star building. The
tickets are to be pro rated and it is
important that the Office have a COM
plete list of those who desire tickets.
Plans are being. completed for the
Robert r. Mattingly. Isaac Cans and
Maj. Victor Bruce Grant. They will
sit in the first row, and Chairman
Mattingly will tap a bell when each
contestants allotted twelve minutes
is up. President Coolidge is to pre-
side, after being introduced by Robert
T.. L. Saner. president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association.
Monarch Club Host.
The Monarch Club is to be host to
the contestants on the night of June
5 at a theater party, it being expected
that all of the contestants will have
arrived here by that date. The club
will entertain the contestants at
luncheon Friday. June 6, the day Of
the contest. Plans call for recep-
tion at the White House that after
noon, after which the seven con-
testants will be accompanied by an
honor guard of local high school stu
dents to the D. A. r. Hall for brief
inspection of the scene of the coming
forensic battle.
Don Tyler, representative of the
Pacific coast district, will come from
Los Angeles with his coach. A. f..
Blanks, head of the public-speaking g
department of the University of
Southern California.
Seventy-flve persons are to come
from the Curtis High School Of New
York, and more than one hundred
are planning to attend the event from
Philadelphia