INTER-COLLEGIATE RULES FOR THE JOINT DEBATE.
and appoint three judges of the debate, on or before the Monday following the second Friday in January.
VI. Each debating society of the university shall hold a preliminary trial debate on the evening appointed by the committee, and on the subject chosen by the committee, and shall admit to that debate all of its members who desire to contest
VII. A university debating society shall be defined as either of the existing organizations, the Adelphic, the University Debating Society, and the Kent Club; and any other debating society that shall be organized in the university before December 1, with a bona fide membership of not less than twelve, and shall submit to the committee the names of not less than six contestants.
VIII. The preliminary debate in each society shall be subject to the rules of that society, except as herein otherwise provided.
IX. The judges of the preliminary debates shall report to the committee the standing of the debaters, and upon the basis of these reports the committee shall choose the two debaters having the highest standing in each preliminary debate, and shall on the Monday following that debate announce them as contestants in the final trial debate: and shall at the same time announce the names of three judges of the final trial debate no one of whom shall have served at any one of the preliminary debates.
X. The question debated at the final trial debate shall be the question chosen for the intercollegiate contest.
XI The judges of the final trial debate shall report to the committee the standing of the debates, and upon the basis of that report the committee shall choose the best three debaters to represent the University in the inter-collegiate contest, and shall announce them on the Monday following the debate.
XII. No admission fee shall be charged at any debate, except the inter-collegiate debate when held at this University. After all expenses of that debate have been paid, the surplus, if any, shall be contributed to the students loan fund.
XIII. At each debate, each speaker shall have two speeches. He shall be allowed
nine minutes for his opening speech, and three minutes for his second speech in rebuttal. The opening speeches shall be delivered in the order assigned, and the rebuttals shall follow in the same order. For each debate not otherwise provided for, the committee shall appoint a presiding officer, who shall act as time-keeper.
XIV. In every trial debate, the sides and order of speakers shall be determined by lot and announced twenty-four hours before the debates take place, and no earlier.
XV. Judges shall be instructed to use the following system in preparing their reports reports: In assigning ranks, the language of the debater shall count twenty points in a scale of one hundred; ready and effective extempore delivery, twenty points, effect produced, ten points, logical character of the speech, fifty points. Judges will see that no ties in any single debate are reported to the committee.
XVI. Any judge in a preliminary debate may be objected to by any one-fourth of the contestants in that debate, and any judge in the final trial debate by a single debater. If such objection is filed with the committee at least one week before the debate the committee shall appoint another judge to replace the one objected to.
XVII. These provisions may be amended at any time by a two-thirds vote of the committee.
NEBRASKA'S PLAN.
Article III. Preliminary debates.
SECTION I. A series of annual local debates, in which any active member of the association may enter, shall be held. There shall be not more than eight debaters in any one contest, and the best eight debaters shall be selected to meet in a final contest, at which the three best shall be chosen to represent the University in a joint debate with Kansas.
SEC. 2. The three judges for the preliminary debates shall be chosen by the Chancellor, the Dean of the Law School, the head of the English Department and the professor of American History.
SEC. 3. The same set of judges shall act at all the preliminary contests except the final contest, for which a second set of judges shall be chosen.