C. The picture entitled the Martyr's Daughter, on p. 409 (Figure 13), may be interpreted in several different ways. After careful study of it, interpret it in your own way, and then attempt to prove that your interpretation is correct.

D. Suppose that some question has arisen regarding the relationship of the three characters in the picture on p. 410 (Figure 14). Give your view and defend it by the strongest arguments you can think of.

II. Formal Debate.

Argumentation and Debate.

154. Debate is argumentation in which the affirmative and the negative of a proposition are both represented on one occasion, each by at least one advocate. Sometimes a written debate is conducted in a magazine or in an English class; but usually debate is oral and requires the bodily presence of the debaters. Debate is formal or informal.

It is formal when conducted strictly according to rules previously adopted. Specimen rules are as follows:

1. In the month of October, 1912, and in alternate years thereafter, school A shall offer a proposition. School B shall have the right to demand definitions of the proposition or of any of its terms, and within three weeks shall choose and announce the side which it will support. The definitions shall be printed on the programmes immediately following the proposition. In October, 1913, and in alternate years thereafter, school B shall offer a proposition and school A shall have the rights and duties assigned above to school B.

2. No person shall represent either school on the debate team who is not at the time a bona fide member of the school, carrying the full work of his class and not delinquent in his studies.

3. The order of speakers and the length of speeches shall be as follows:

4. In the odd numbered years, at least four weeks before the debate, school A shall propose a list of at least six names for judges, and school B shall have the right and duty to choose the judges from this list or to call for further lists. No alumnus or official of either school shall be proposed as judge, and at least three of the persons named on each list shall be non-residents of the places in which the schools are located.

5. At the close of each debate, each judge, without leaving his seat, shall fill the blank in the following statement with the word "affirmative" or the word