292. The United States Government should contribute funds for the exploration of the polar regions. 293. The Russian revolution of 1917 promoted the best interests of Russia. 294. The American Board of Foreign Missions is justified in accepting financial aid from Mr. Rockefeller. 295. Hypnotic entertainments should be prohibited by state law. 296. All church property should be taxed. 297. Any person who advocates putting to death, by legal sanction or otherwise, persons afflicted with an incurable disease should be punished for felony. 298. National expositions are a benefit to the country. 299. A representative should vote according to the wishes of his constituency. 300. England's course in the Boer War has been justified by the results attained. 301. The opponents of autocracy in Russia are justified in the use of violence. 302. The veto power of the House of Lords should be annulled. 303. The signatory powers at the Brussels Conference should de prive Belgium of all authority in the Congo Independent State. 304. Legislation should be adopted for the purpose of giving greater security to wills and bequests. 305. Life imprisonment, with a restricted power of pardon on the part of the governor, is preferable to capital punishment. 306. Permanent copyright should be granted by the United States Government. 307. Capital punishment should be prohibited by federal law. 308. The dramatization of novels is detrimental to the dramatic art. 309. The historical novel hinders the accurate conception of history. 310. Federal laws and licenses should govern automobiling. 311. Congress should require all railroads subject to its jurisdiction to adopt a block signal system. FIRST PRACTICE 312. Written term examinations should be abolished. 313. Manual training should be included in high-school courses. 314. Government seed distribution should be continued. 315. The execution of Major André was justifiable. 316. The reading of the Bible in public schools should be required. 317. College property should be taxed. 318. The College Department of the University of thrown open to women. 319. Fraternities are desirable in R College. should be 320. The "honor system" should be adopted for all examinations in R College. 321. State laws prohibiting secular employment on Sunday should be repealed. 322. A third party has at present no place in American politics. 323. The class rushes at the beginning of the college year should be discontinued. 324. The City of should have a curfew law. 325. The new high-school building (or library building, or post-office, or court-house) should be located at 326. No decisions should be rendered in intercollegiate debates. 327. Awards in intercollegiate debates should be made, not on the merits of the debate, but on the merits of the question. 328. R College should arrange for triangular debates with B College and S 329. The City of College. should build a municipal auditorium. 330. Loan funds are preferable to free scholarships as aids to college students. 331. In co-educational colleges, men and women should be eligible for intercollegiate debating teams on equal terms. 332. Teams representing College should not be allowed to go more than two hundred miles from the College during terms. 333. Students should not be declared ineligible for college teams because they have engaged in athletics for money. 334. The student-body tax at than four dollars. College should not be more 335. The hour for chapel should be changed. 336. Any bona-fide college student under twenty-one years of age, and having completed one year's work in good standing, should be allowed to represent in athletics the institution at which such work has been done, regardless of any compensation he may previously have received for his athletic ability. 337. The members of this class should support the Republican ticket in the next city election. 338. The members of this class should support the Republican state ticket. 339. Public libraries, museums, and art galleries should be open on Sunday. 340. The City of should make a larger appropriation for the maintenance of the public high school. 341. A college commons should be established at R R 342. Chapel attendance at R― College. College should be compulsory. 343. It would be for the interests of R track meet with B- - College. College to hold a dual 344. College dormitories should be in charge of undergraduate proctors. 345. In high-school graduation exercises there should be no speaking by members of the class. 346. Public libraries should not circulate novels until two years after publication. 347. The State of should establish a trade school for the blind. 348. Gymnasium work in R- College should be compulsory throughout the course. 349. The State of should appropriate the sum of the extermination of the gypsy moth. for 350. The capital of the State of should be removed to 351. The students of R- College should have self-government. 352. The tuition in R- College should be changed to 353. The rules of the game of football should be radically revised. 354. Lincoln's plan of reconstruction was superior to the Congres sional plan. 355. Ex-Presidents of the United States should receive a salary equal to one half the salary of the President. 356. The National Capital should be removed to a more central location. 357. Indians should no longer be treated as wards of the Govern ment. 358. The cause of higher education in the State of better served by fewer colleges. 359. There should be a reform in our pension system. would be 360. The Rhodes Scholarships for the United States will accomplish the objects of the founder. INDEX Adler, Felix, quoted, 212. Analysis of the proposition, exercises Angell, Norman, quoted, on conscrip- A posteriori reasoning, 171. Assertion, weakness of mere, 92-95. Baker, G. P., Principles of Argumen- tation, quoted, 13. Bryan, W. J., argument opposed to Calhoun, J. C., "How can the Union be preserved ?" quoted, 24-27. Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 253, 263. Channing, W. E., quoted, 207. 50. Coherence, a principle of style, 247– Colorado College, brief from, 74-76. 56. Concurrent testimony, 108-10. Conviction, differentiated from per- Curran, J. P., quoted, 43, 51. Debating, a final word about, 305- |