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Show B. Y. C. VICTORS I IN BIG DEBATE A. C. Team Fought Hard and Died Game. H One of the Best Debates Ever Heard Here. The Brlgham Young College not HJ only has a championship basketball HJ team but It now has a championship HJ debating team, Messrs. A. L. Merrill HJ anc' A D. Krlckscn winning the do- HJ clsion over R. O. Porter and James L. HJ Kcarns, of the A. C. of U., In tho big HJ debate last Saturday night. However, HJ tho recent victory was hardly so de- HJ clslvo as that over tho Y. M.O. A. ball HJ tossers, yet sulllclentlv decisive to H leave no room for quibble. HJ The A O. team probably had the HJ advantage so for as stago presence and HJ delivery is oonosrncd, and there are HJ thoso who Insist that their citation of HJ authority was better than that of HJ their opponents, but tho B. Y. 0. boys HJ put up a good argument and pounded HJ away with great persistence, and this H had its effect. The A. 0. boys really H lost out In their rebuttal, being unable HJ to meet the situation satisfactorily. H Kcarns was unquestionably the best H talker In tho bunch. HJ Tho debato is considered ones of the HJ very best heard here and the B. Y. 0. HJ boys arc entitled to every credit for HJ their victory. The audience present HJ filled the assembly loom to tho limit. HJ The 'Judges were Profs. Reynolds, HJ Gibson and Young of tho State Unl- H vcrslty. Dr Geo Thomas' presided HJ and considerable fun was created HJ when Erlckson, a foimer student of HJ Thomas at the A. 0 , quoted lilm as HJ authnrih The decision of the Judges 3J was two for and one against the B. Y. Mj C , the question debated being that H "Congress seould prohibit the Imml- " HJ gratlon Into the United States of all IH persons who cannot read and write fM some language," tho B. Y.C.'s taking HJ the negat ie. jJ |