TO SUGGEST CREATION OF DEBATING DIRECTOR

At a meeting of the Harvard Debating Council held last night in the Eliot House common room, the Council voted to suggest to the University the creation of the office of Director of Debating. This office has never existed within the University, and the Council feels that there should be one.

The Council decided that the man best fitted for this position is Edward M. Rowe '27, who has coached debating since 1927.

In reviewing its plans for the future, the Council revealed that next year trips are to be taken to Canada, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and through central New York to Buffalo. A regular debate with the University of Chicago is also planned, as well as debates broadcast over local stations, while the annual triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, the high point of the year, is to be held in the early spring. The Council agreed that inter-House debating should be fostered, and this plan is to be executed soon.

During the trials for the annual triangular debate the members of the debating council will compete for the T. Jefferson Coolidge Prize of $100, awarded each year to the debater who turns in the best speech in the tryouts. Last year this prize was won by Donal M. Sullivan '33, of Boston. Sullivan was also president of the Debating Council and is permanent Class Secretary of the Class of 1933.