THE MTCHTAN DAILY TUESDAY, OCT BEE Gantabrigians Criticize U.S. DebateStyle Speech Journal To Print Views By NANCY BYLAN American debating has become "a mental exercise for research students, an arid game of intellec- tual mathematicians." This is the opinion of Denzil K. Freeth and Percy Cradock, two of the four Cambridge undergrad- uates who made a debating tour of American universities and col- leges last spring. * * * CRADOCK and Duncan Macrae appeared here on March 23, and with University partners they took opposing sides on the question of an international third force. Cradock and Freeth have re- corded their impressions of American debating in an article which will appear in the De- cember issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The Cantabrigians observed among some American debaters "an inability to grip the audience and win its sympathy, a lack of oratorical and rhetorical tech- nique, an ignorance of how to in- sert humor into the very web and woof of a speech. * * R AMERICAN speakers are im- peded by "too great a sense of log- ical argument and formal speech structure," they criticized. By contrast, the British style of debating is politicaland ora- torical, they said. Emphasis is on an appeal to the audience, which participateshinethe debate by cheering and interrupting to ask questions, they explained. Freeth and Cradock attributed the "defects" in American debat- ing to the debate tournament and the debate coach. These institu- tions have turned debating into a speaking contest. Debating for the sheer delight of arguing and con- vincing an audience has disap- peared in America, they declared. The only school mentioned in the article is the University, which is cited for its cross-examination system whereby opponents and au- dience can interrupt the speakers. This Michigan plan of debate was inaugurated here in 1945 and is now spreading to other colleges. Lloyd Forms First Dorm Alun Group Men of Lloyd Association is the first alumni group to be organized by a University dormitory. Consisting of students and alum- ni who have lived in Lloyd House for at least a year, the association has 85 members from all parts of the United States and the West Indies. THE ASSOCIATION honored alumni in its first annual home- coming Saturday. The program included a post-game dinner, a business meeting and a dance with Chuck Brodhead's Combo orches- tra, which 100 couples attended. The group established the Donald Brown Memorial Schol- arship Fund for residents in financial need. They also dis- cussed plans to set up out-of- town chapters in some of the larger cities. Alumni elected to positions are Steve Munteau, Detroit, president; Lee Shulman, Detroit, and Ar- thur Bradley, Shepherd, Mich., vice-presidents. Family Buying Wise ' The father isn't the only one in the family who should be re- sponsible for "bringing home the bacon." Helping with the family shopping is one of the best ways for children to learn the true value of money. SAVE and earn 20 current rate on insured savings SIGMA CHI 'FREE FOR ALL' Pledges Debut Amid Coed Confusion 1 1 * * * * * * * * * Ann Arbor's first coming-out party went off with a bang Sun- day as 22 Sigma Chi pledges made their debuts before 300 coeds. Wearing traditional white roses, the shy youths graciously met and mingled with all comers. The guests, however, were somewhat confused about the procedure at all-male debuts-more than 35 girls showed up in evening dresses. COINCIDENTALLY, the for- mally dressed girls all came from Martha Cook dormitory and as- serted that they thought it was a cocktail party in explaining their attire of evening dresses, saddle shoes, rainhats and lumberjackets. But both pledges and the Delta Gamma hostesses took it in good stride. Only one pledge was slightly embarrassed when the girls raised him to their shoulders and paraded him through the house. Actives seemed less appalled at the Cook girls' antics. "We wanted to show off the pledges, and I guess we did so," Jack Edman, Sigma Chi president, said. "Be- sides, we heard about it earlier from a leak in the Martha Cook security chain." AFTER THE, over-dressed coeds stormed out of the place the debut went along much as planned in an atmosphere of joviality and well-covered trays of hors d'oevres. Skits were presented by the members, with a magic show by Jack Gannon and group singing topping off the afternoon. Both pledges and actives thought the party a walloping success, accord- ing to fraternity members. In the words of a Delta Gamma hostess who had observed the pro- ceedings from beginning to end: "It was a fine party, and the Sigma Chis certainly hit on a good idea in giving it. We should do it more often." The Sigma Chis thought so, too. 'Golden Boy' Final Tryouts To Be Today Stundent Players will hold their final tryout meeting for "Golden Boy" at 7:30 p.m. today in the League. Parts will be announced after the tryouts have been completed. "GOLDEN BOY," written by Clifford Odets, appeared on Broad- way in 1937. It is the story of an Italian youth who throws away his musical talents to take up the career of a prize fighter. .Student Players are also seek- ing a business manager, accord- ing to Burt Sapowitch, producer. The group was organized on campus last year out of the Willow Village Little Theatre. Kipling Story Aired Tonight The story of two hoboes and their adventures in India will be heard when the Angell Hall Play- ers present Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" at 8 p.m. today, over stations WUOM and WHRV. Adapted for radio by Roland Quimby, teaching fellow of the speech department the comedy will be directed by Merle McClatchy. The cast includes Ed Dworsky, Hagen Schumaker, Frank Bouws- ma, and Nafe Ktter. Best Grasshopper Leap The recorded jump of a grass- hopper is 16 feet and 8 inches- more than 100 times its own length. SRA Group To Present Conference "The United States: Her World Responsibilities" will be the theme of the SRA Young Friends Fel- lowship Weekend Institute to be held Saturday and Sunday at Lane Hall. William R. Huntington, secre- tary of the American-Russian Re- lations Committee of the Friends Service Committee, will be the principal speaker. * * * HIS ADDRESS on "America's Real World Responsibilities" will be based on his studies as relief administrator in. Europe where he spent two years. Another highlight of the week-end program includes an evaluation session on "How Can College Students Affect Our Foreign Policy?" led by Prof. Le- Roy Ferguson of the Michigan State political science depart- ment. DeWitt C. Baldwin, director of Lane Hall, will also address the meeting on "East and West Can Learn To Live Together." PROF. HAROLD Guetzkow of the psychology department will head a panel on "What Are the United States" Responsibilities To- ward the World's Refugees?" Students interested in partici- pating in the week-end institute are asked to mail the registration fee of $2.00 to Marian Gyr, Gen- eral Chairman, 1028 Lincoln Ave. BROWN JUGLET: Newberry Victorious in Annual Gridiron Contest r By ROMA LIPSKY and MERLE LEVIN Helen Newberry's football team retained possession of the "Little Little Brown Jug" with a rousing 26-0 victory over Betsy Barbour in their annual grid contest Sunday. Newberry's tight defense and precision blocking were too much for the Barbour-ites who suffered their most one-sided defeat since the inception of the series way back in 1948. * * * NEWBERRY took the opening kickoff and immediately moved into scoring 'territory with half- back Dot Rapp sweeping 25 yards around her own end to score on the fourth play of the game. The tall, elusive halfback brought the score to 7-0 by running Barbour's left end for the extra point. A 20-yard pass from Joyce Robi- chaud to Carol Schaller gave New- berry a 13-0 lead early in the second quarter. This ended the scoring in the first half as New- berry's tight defense offset the valiant aerial efforts of Barbour's Ruth Spillman. * * * THE SECOND HALF saw the Newberry girls roll to two more touchdowns. Carol Schaller went over in the third period on a sensational reverse play that covered 35 yards. NORMA JACKEC scored the extra point on the ancient statue of liberty play to make the score Newberry 26, Barbour 0. Rita Woodson and Becky Short anchored the brilliant Newberry line while defensive backfield ace Betty Brown stymied a good share of the Barbour plays which man- aged to penetrate the Newberry line. -Daily-Alex Lmanian SIGMA CHI DEBUTANTE-Chuck Weyand, Si ma Chi pledge, makes his bow to society at Sigma Chi coming-out party Sunday. Given to intro duce the 22 fraternity pledges to campus coeds, the event attracted 35 Martha Cook girls, who, con plete with formals, saddle shoes and lumberjackets, chat with Weyand over the refreshment table. 'THIEVES' AT WORK: Quaders Raid Wrecked Building for Material Today's Pro grais DRAMA-8 p.m. Angell Hall Play- By DAVIS CRIPPEN Something even more unusual than the homecoming displays t'hemselves was turned up in the heated competition last week when a group of honest thieves snuck out to prowl from houses in the East Quad and vicinity. Descending on a Church Street house being razed in the shadow of the Quad early last week, the angelic criminals "borrowed" pieces of wood to bolster their dis- plays. * * * THEIR HONESTY appeared yesterday morning, when work- men, arriving to put the finishing touches on the wrecking, found many of the missing pieces of wood, including an errant flight of stairs, strewn about the site. Who started the great wood rush remains unknown, but the reason for its growth was ex- plained by Paul Stopper, '50- BAd., whose dorm, Hayden House, used and returned some of the wood. "Itwas sort of spontaneous," he said. "Somebody came in and said that another house had their rec room full of the wood, and we IFC Calls for More Talent Talent offers for the IFC Talent Show are pouring into the IFC Offices, according to Dick Tinker, '50, publicity chairman for the show. But, said Tinker, applications are still being accepted. Any stu- dent is eligible to' participate. Music, comedy, dance, acrobatic, magic and other types of acts will be presented in the show. THE TALENT SHOW will be presented December 1, instead of November 17 as previously an- nounced. Proceeds iwll be used to finance the IFC's annual Christ- mas party for Ann Arbor children, held in the IM Building. Tinker asked all students who want to participate in the Talent Show to send a card to the IPC offices, Rm. 3C, Union, stating their name, type of act, address and phone number. thought we'd better get some. So we did." MEN WORKING on the project took the incident rather philo- sophically. "This really wasn't anything," one of them said yes- terday as he picked up the last of the returned wood. "One time we were doing a job on Hill Street, and somebody walked off with a bathtub we'd parked out in front. You've just gotta expect these things in a college town." house-WHRV, WUOM. MUS-8:15 p.m. Music Master- Farce Tomorrow works - WPAG. 10:30 p.m. F reT m ro Deems Taylor-CKLW. A t Mendelssohn FORUM - 8:30 p.m. America's Town Meeting "What Should "Servant of Two Masters" will the Free World Do About the begin a four night run at 8 p.m. Atomic Bomb"?-WHRV, tomorrow in Lydia Mendelssohn AW Theatre. 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