WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PICKS WESTERN DEBATERS

The University Debating Council received on Saturday a dispatch from the University of Washington announcing the selection of three men to represent the Western University in the East-West debate which is to be held here on Friday evening, May 21. Wendell W. Black, Floyd Toomey and Earl C. Nelson are the debaters chosen to make the transcontinental trip. These three men were on the University of Washington Pacific Coast championship team, which this year defeated the University of Oregon, Leland Stanford and the University of British Columbia, receiving in the decisions 14 out of a possible 18 judges vote. Washington has been concentrating with great success on delivery and polish in oratory, in which they will undoubtedly excel the University team, whose hopes are based on clear thinking and logical reasoning.

In the daily trials being conducted by Coach H. B. Huntington '97, contestants for the University team are slowly narrowing down, and in a few days the team will be picked. With the cooperation of Coach Huntington, Mr. Frank B. Armitage, an experienced Chatauqua speaker, has instituted an entirely new system of training. The men's voices are carefully diagnosed, remediable physical defects are corrected when possible, and suitable exercises recommended. By means of a dictagraph the speaker's voice is transferred to a record which can be reproduced, so that defects are plainly shown, and with the help of the coach much more easily corrected than by the usual method. A series of these records clearly indicates the improvement in the into-nation and delivery, as the debater overcomes his faults by this system.