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The Harvard College Debating Union (previously known as the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society), is one of Harvard University's two competitive debate organizations. As the winner of the most American Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships of any college (including in 2012, 2013, and 2015), the 2013 North American Champions, the 2009, 2010 and 2015 finalists at the World Universities Debating Championship, and the 2014 World Champions, the team is consistently one of the most successful debate organizations in the world. == History == Though formal debate at Harvard dates back over a century, the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society was founded in the fall of 1981 in response to the recent creation of the American Parliamentary Debate Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Brief History of APDA )〕 The organization was created by leading members of the undergraduate Harvard Radcliffe Speech Team, Gordon Bell ’83 and Tony DiNovi ’84, and two graduate students who were veterans of parliamentary debate at Vassar and Yale, Tom Rozinski and Neil Buchanan. Members of HSPDS began to compete in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, a national league of university debating societies that had been conceived only months earlier in late January or early February 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 Almost from the start, HSPDS was a dominant force on APDA, winning the National Championships in 1983 and amazingly, every third year after that up until 1992. To this day, Harvard holds the record for most National Championships won by a school with nine, including back to back titles in 2004 and 2005 and 2012 and 2013. The competitive strength of HSPDS was perhaps best demonstrated in the 1992-1993 season when Harvard teams won the National Championships, World Championships, and were twice runner up at the North American Championships in 1992 and 1993. These achievements mirrored the success HSPDS had in recruiting members and facilitating debate on campus. In 1991 alone, the team recorded 112 total members, of which 58 competed regularly. Though HSPDS has been a student-run organization from its inception and faculty involvement has been kept to a minimum, HSPDS has had several famous and influential faculty sponsors. These include Professor Richard Marius, a famous academic and writer, and the former director of the Expository Writing Program, as well as the Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. Today, HSPDS continues to be an entirely student-run enterprise, governed by an entirely undergraduate, five-member executive board. The team has continued to be tremendously successful. In recent years, Harvard debaters finished as National Champions in 2013 and 2012, finalists at the 2010 APDA National Championship, champions of the 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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