page_title: Swarthmore College
section_title: The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society
hierarchical_section_title: Swarthmore College / Student life / The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society
caption_attribution_description: English: The Phi Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity, at Swarthmore, as photographed in The Signet, Jan 1944, vol.XXXVI, No.1, p.7, for the page List of Phi Sigma Kappa Chapters Other information This is a low-res version of the file, for use on the Phi Sigma Kappa Wikipedia page.
context_page_description: Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes being held in 1869, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established to be a college "...under the care of Friends, at which an education may be obtained equal to that of the best institutions of learning in our country." By 1906, Swarthmore had dropped its religious affiliation and became officially non-sectarian.
  Swarthmore is a member of the Tri-College Consortium along with Bryn Mawr and Haverford College, a cooperative academic arrangement between the three schools. Swarthmore is also affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania through the Quaker Consortium, which allows for students to cross-register for classes at all four institutions. Swarthmore offers over 600 courses a year in more than 40 areas of study, including an ABET accredited engineering program which culminates with a Bachelor of Science in engineering.
context_section_description: The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society, named after a former United States Ambassador to Australia, is one of the few independently endowed organizations on campus. Members of the Society debate on the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) circuit in addition to traveling abroad to Britain, Canada, and the World Universities Debating Championship for British Parliamentary Style tournaments. The team has won four APDA national championships, including one as recently as 2017. It has also won Team of the Year two times and Speaker of the Year once. In 2018, it was ranked as the top liberal arts debate program in the country.
caption: ΦΣΚ's Phi Chapter, at Swarthmore, circa 1944
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