P.G.D.C.

Feeling the need of more work of a special kind in 1884, the Palladian girls organized a debating club. Its premiary object was to train its member in the art of debating and extemporaneous speaking.

The chief purpose of the club, however, is still to excel in deating and grow accustomed to parliamentary rules and usages. Each year the club has found more work to do. As the general society grows, the value of the P.G.D.C. is better appreciated. It is in the club that a great share of the work in training, formerly done by the society, is accomplished. 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 (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 Palladian Boys' Debating Club was organized in order to afford the Palladian boys a better and freer opportunity than was possible in the society. for cultiating 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 pupose 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 the past year the club has been organized into a United States' Senate, introducing and passing bills after the custom of that august body. By this arrangement the members not only gain fluency of speech in debate, but also gain a good knowledge of the workings of congress.

The P.B.D.C. serves as a stepping stone to the Palladian society 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.