In Tuesday's issue we discussed the applicability of the Yale "Wigwam" debating system to the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard, and came to the conclusion that, in spite of the ground covered by courses of instruction and the University Debating Club, there was yet room for informal organizations of a character intended rather to popularize than to give training in, debate.

The frame-work of Harvard's debating system as it now stands, seems effective. All that is needed is some method to make interest in it general, and this Yale system presents itself as a possibility. How to apply it is then the question.

That it could be introduced by class organization seems unlikely. While the history of Freshman and Sophomore clubs has proved that class clubs can be successful on a formal basis, their equal success on an informal and social, seems improbable. They are too large and the interests of their individual members are too varied. The possibility of establishing such a system is then in the hands of individual undergraduates. At Yale it is applied only among the best debaters, there being but twenty members of each "camp." What we would propose at Harvard is the organization in the Junior and Senior classes of little independent "camps," which could meet separately on a social basis and compete informally together. To make a risky analogy, such a system would resemble scrub baseball, and might prove every whit as successful in arousing general interest.