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LITERARY SOCIETIES.

Connected with the University are two literary societies of long standing—
the Jefferson Society and the Washington Society. At weekly meetings in their
respective halls they hold debates and practice extemporaneous and other forms
of public speaking. Each society annually offers gold medals for excellence in
debating and oratory, and each organization contests for intersociety prizes.

MEDALISTS, 1916-1917.

         
Jefferson Society Orator  Frank Stringfellow Barr 
Washington Society Orator  Roy Lawrence Garis 
Jefferson Society Debater  Gordon Barbour Ambler 
Washington Society Debater  William Lanier Allen 
Washington Society Declaimer  William Howard Estes