The Otago University Debating Society (OUDS) is a debating society established in June 1878 and is the oldest society of the University of Otago,[1][2] the first university to be founded in New Zealand. Echoing trends in Australia and the United States (the University of Sydney Union was founded in 1874 and Harvard's debating union in 1880), in the latter decades of the nineteenth century debating was seen as an important talent for New Zealand's thought leaders,[3] and was one of the three sports in the New Zealand University Games from 1902.
Prominent members of OUDS during its early years included Alfred Richard Barclay (one of its first vice-presidents),[4] William Downie Stewart Jr (1898–1900),[5] Harry Bedford (1900–1901)[6] who as a 25-year-old policial novice entered Parliament in 1902 with the highest individual vote that had ever been recorded in New Zealand,[7] John Callan (who won the Joynt Challenge Scroll in 1905)[8] and Ossie Mazengarb (c.1910).[9]
OUDS is one of the five societies in the New Zealand Universities Debating Council,[10] through which members compete in domestic, national and international tournaments. In conjunction with members from the Otago University Rugby Club, OUDS members formed the Otago University Students' Association (OUSA) in 1890 because it felt that university students needed strong representation. OUSA has since become a strong advocate for student rights.
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The Otago University Review: A History of the Otago University During its Minority. Otago University. 1893. p. 43. Of all the institutions now existing in connection with our College the oldest is the Debating Society.... the centre of the University life, from which radiated the social intercourse of the students
^William Parker Morrell (1969). The University of Otago, a Centennial History. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Elworthy, Sam. Ritual song of defiance: a social history of students at the University of Otago (1990) (ISBN 978-0473008994) ("The Otago University Debating Society proved to be one of the most energetic student organizations over the next forty years.")
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"Mr Bathgate and Mr Reynolds as ministers". Otago Daily Times. No. 3352. 2 November 1872. p. 5.
Bettina Kaiser (2008). "Collegiate Debating Societies in New Zealand: The Role of Discourse in an Inter-Colonial Setting, 1878–1902 (PhD Thesis)" (PDF). University of Canterbury. pp. 100–143.
^"In the Public Eye". New Zealand Illustrated Magazine. 1 July 1901. p. 739.
^Stephanie Dale. "Stewart, William Downie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
^"A Promising Career". Hawera & Normanby Star. Vol. XLII, no. 7617. 1 December 1902. p. 2.
^Gill, Michael. "Bedford, Harry Dodgshun". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
^P J Downey. "Callan, John Bartholomew". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
^G P Barton. "Mazengarb, Oswald Chettle". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
^"Who We Are". New Zealand Universities Debating Council. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
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