lished. That the club has succeeded fairly well is evidenced by the audiences it has attracted the last three years to its special programs. These "girls' programs" are always prepared by the P.G.D.C. and given in Palladian Hall.

In the past year many matters have been thoroughly discussed and decided in the two clubs (the P.B.D.C. and the P.G.D.C.), thus saving the general society much time and trouble. Moreover more and better work is done by small organizations.

Not an unimportant object of the P.G.D.C. is to unite the Palladian girls by a bond of work and good-fellowship.

The club meets every Friday afternoon, and every Palladian girl is expected to join and do her share of the work. We extend a hearty welcome to all Palladian girls and other university girls not members of other literary societies or of fraternities.

P.B.D.C.

In the fall of 1882 the Palldian Boys' Debating Club was organized in order to afford the Palladian boys a better and freer opportunity than was possible in the Society for cultivating proficiency in extemporaneous speaking and for gaining a good, practical knowledge of parliamentary usage. Through the ten years following its organization the club has accomplished its purpose well, and has served also to draw the boys together into a closer fellowship. It is believed that the remarkable unity of feeling, the absence of factionalism and partisan strife, that characterizes the Palladian Society is, in a large measure, due to the influence of the debating clubs.

During this spring term there was organized a "University Debating Club," open to all students, which meets on alternate Saturdays in the chapel. The purpose of the new organization is to afford training, more serious, before a larger audience, than is possible in the smaller clubs. The P.B.D.C., however, for the benefit of the lower classmen, who make up a large portion of its regular attendance, will continue its meetings on alternate Saturdays. Thus, those that have had but little practice in public speaking may gain confidence in themselves, may learn to muster their thoughts while standing before an audience, and to express them clearly and forcibly. The P.B.D.C. will serve as a stepping stone to the Palladian Society, to the University Debating Club, for many capable but timid students. It is believed that the P.B.D.C. fills a place in our college life that is occupied by no other organization.

A critic has been added to the list of officers, and principal disputants are appointed for every meeting. The meetings, as a rule, have been well attended and full of interest and profit throughout the year.