AND DEBATING Revised Edition BY WILLIAM TRUFANT FOSTER, PH.D., LL.D. COPYRIGHT, 1908 AND 1917, BY WILLIAM TRUFANT FOSTER PE 1431 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED .F6 HARVARD UN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The Riverside Press U.S.A PREFACE THE original edition of Argumentation and Debating was used as a textbook, from 1908 to 1917, in more than one hundred universities and colleges. The experience of these institutions has been made the basis for the revised edition. More than one hundred college teachers aided in the revision. The following are among those who made especially helpful suggestions: J. H. Atkinson, Iowa State College. Margaret Ball, Mount Holyoke College. Madison C. Bates, South Dakota State College. James W. Cain, Washington State College, Maryland. J. L. Chesnutt, University of Southern California. George H. Clarke, University of Tennessee. I. M. Cochran, Carleton College, Minnesota. Clinton H. Collester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. H. V. Cranston, University of Maine. Albert A. Crecelius, Hiram College, Ohio. H. B. Gislason, University of Minnesota. Chester N. Greenough, Harvard University, Massachusetts. Carl Holliday, University of Montana. Ernest H. Lindley, Indiana University. Carroll L. Maxcy, Williams College, Massachusetts. John Muirheid, Hobart College, New York. J. R. Pelsma, University of Texas. Sigurd H. Peterson, Oregon Agricultural College. |