P.G.D.C.

In 1884 girls of the Palladian society organized the Palladian Girls' Debating Club. The object was to give them drill in speaking extemporaneously, preparatory to taking part in the general society debates. The club also served to bring the Palladian girls into closer relations with each other, and formed a sort of girls' special committee of the society, in which society matters were fully discussed and special programs prepared. The special programs of the P.G.D.C. are always well attended and thoroughly enjoyed.

The past year has been a difficult one for the club. Owing to the great extention in class work and the many conflicts in hours, the club found early in the year that it would be impossible to get any hour when all the girls could be on hand. Only present students of the University can appreciate this difficulty. The club, however, has met pretty regularly at 5 o'clock every Friday afternoon. Instead of being properly a debating organization, the club has this year been a reading club. Magazine articles on important topics of the day have been read and discussed informally. The experiment has proved in some degree successful. It is intended to re-instate the debate next year as a part of the work, and the P.G.D.C. may expect to send representatives to debate with Kansas.

All Palladian girls should be members of the club. Girls who are not members of the society are welcome to the meetings, and in this way many excellent workers have been secured for the society.