ELEMENTS OF DEBATING

A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies

By

LEVERETT S. LYON

Head of the Department of Civic Science in the Joliet Township High School

1919







PREFACE


This book pretends but little to originality in material. Its aim is
to offer the old in a form that shall meet the needs of young students
who are beginning work in debate. The effort has been made only to
present the elements of forensic work so freed from technicality that
they may be apparent to the student with the greatest possible economy
of time and the least possible interpretation by the teacher.

It is hoped that the book may serve not only those schools where
debating is a part of the regular course, but also those institutions