175th Session (2023-2024)

Behold! The debates of the 175th Session of the Literary and Scientific Society! Minutes were written by Mr James Orchin HLM. All minutes are PDF files hosted on Google Drive.

FIRST SEMESTER

This House Believes AI Undermines Our Huamnity

1st Ordinary Meeting
Date: 21/09/2023
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This House Regrets The Left’s Embrace of Identity Politics

2nd Ordinary Meeting
Date: 28/09/2023
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This House Believes Religion Is a Force for Good

3rd Ordinary Meeting
Date: 05/10/2023
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This hOUSE bELIEVES pOETRY IS uLTIMATELY pOINTLESS

4th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 12/10/2023
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tHIS hOUSE bELIEVES tHE bRITISH eMPIRE dID mORE gOOD THAN hARM

5th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 19/10/2023
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tHIS hOUSE wOULD lIVE iN a gENDERLESS sOCIETY

6th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 26/10/2023
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This House Regrets the Fall of the USSR

7th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 02/11/2023
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This House Believes Achieving Net Zero Is Not Worth The Cost

8th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 09/11/2023
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This House Would Elect a Sinn FEin Government (In Collaboration with TCD’s ‘The Phil’)

1st Great Debate
Date: 16/11/2023

This House Believes There Is A Viable Alternative To Democracy (Godkin Newcomers Debate)

9th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 23/11/2023
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This House Regrets The Industrial Revolution

10th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 30/11/2023
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This House Would ‘Stop the Boats’

11th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 07/12/2023
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Christmas Festivities and Mini-Debates

Date: 14/12/2023

SECOND SEMESTER

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES HARRY POTTER IS MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN LORD OF THE RINGS

12th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 25/01/2024

THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE DECLINE OF THE SDLP

13th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 30/01/2024
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THIS HOUSE, AS TRUMAN, WOULD DROP THE BOMB

14th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 08/02/2024

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE REPUBLIC HAS FORGOTTEN ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND

15th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 15/02/2024

this house believes society has strayed too far from humanity

16th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 22/02/2024

dufferin competition for the best speaker of the house

17th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 07/03/2024

this house believes privacy is dead

18th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 14/03/2024

this house would retain the british overseas territories

19th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 21/03/2024

this house believes classics are classist

20th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 28/03/2024

this house believes we are not alone in the universe

21st Ordinary Meeting
Date: 11/04/2024

this house would elect the house of lords

22nd Ordinary Meeting
Date: 18/04/2024

this house believes if the globe doesn’t fit, you must acquit

23rd Ordinary Meeting
Date: 25/04/2024

this house supports the legacy and reconciliation act

24th Ordinary Meeting
Date: 02/05/2024