desirable method of dividing the students for
competition under the proposed plan, for:

(1) Class division is unsatisfactory, for:

a) The more mature and experienced upper classes win
too easily.

(2) "Group division" is not desirable, for:

a) If the division is large, the domination of the
mature students will give no opportunity to the younger
students.

b) If the division is small, it is likely to develop
into a secret society.

B. Experience opposes the proposed plan, for:

1. College experience is against it, for:

(1) N. University tried this plan without success, for:

a) Quotation from president of N.

2. High-school experience does not indorse it, for:

(1) It is practically untried in high schools.

REFUTATION

I. The argument which the affirmative may advance, that the experience
of Shortridge High School demonstrates the success of this plan, is
without weight, for:

A. It is not applicable to this question, for:

1. The plan at Shortridge is not identical with the proposed
plan, for:

(1) Shortridge has not entirely abolished inter contests, for:

a) _School Review_, October, 1911.

2. Conditions in Shortridge differ from those in the high schools
of Northern Illinois, for:

(1) Faculty of that school has unusual efficiency in coaching,
for:

a) Extract from letter of principal.

(2) Larger number of students, for:

a) Extract from letter of principal.

CONCLUSION

Since there is no opportunity for serious abuse arising from contests
between schools, and since the adoption of contests within the schools
alone would lessen the democracy of contests as a form of education,
and since the proposed plan is impracticable in theory and has never
been put into successful operation, the negative concludes that the
substitution of intra for inter contests is not desirable in the high
schools of Northern Illinois.

From these illustrative briefs we can draw:

RULES FOR BRIEFING

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admit, or, as you can show, should reasonably admit, from the
phrasing of the proposition.

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