Show STUDENT LIFE 128 construed as tending to malice Attorney Walters The affirmative was cannot be in any way They are simply represented by Leon B Stoddard and or envy reconWalter Porter of the A Cf while Mr meant to effect if possible a slight contests herestruction in Pehrson and Mr Godfrey of the B Y from the Agrispoke for the negative Nothing like a after Representatives student body agreed to synopsis but only a slight mention can cultural College meet representatives from the Brigham be made of the arguments here B Mr Stoddart’s opening speech lacked Young College student body Leon Porter represented slightly along the line of delivery but Stoddard and Walter our institution They are students The contained the main requisite in an arguinstitution ment : construction with proofs for every questions submitted by this statement made and all in dear concise were rejected by B Y C representatives was sent back which English Mr Pehrson followed with an and one question debate It was one which eloquent appeal in which he stood firmly they agreed to on the Constitution and the Fifteenth had been debated in principle in their halls before and one of the speakers chosAmendment His delivery was commenOf dable in the extreme and his argument en won a prize on its presentation was good but through it all you could the men chosen to represent the B Y C theone was a member o fthe Alumni the see a slight tendency to “play to the galcolMr Porter abandoned much of other has been an instructor in the lery school his own argument for the sake of comlege the other was not attending his institubating his opponent’s The result was a and was sent for to represent tion complete riddling of the main stand takThat our boys won under such conditions en What other argument he had time to redounds to their credit We mention advance after his masterful refutation was clear and conclusive Mr Godfrey these facts not to exalt ourselves but to was the last speaker for the negative His bring about something better In the name of everything clean and honorable main mistake was in confusing the lecture hall with the debating room He if we have anything between the colleges wasted precious moments in making his again let its basis be above everything emiaudience laugh and seemed to forget that else squareness The college is pre- views and a judges were below waiting for points nently the place for broad He had an excellent flow of language but college debate won on anything but the he lacked argument and his speech was most inscrutably clean principles cannot essentially argumentum ad populum In but be an empty honor his five minute summary the champion Physical Culture Ball of the affirmative did some fine stunts in Anyone who attended the ball given leveling The result was anticipated The superior delivery of the negative by the Physical Culture class will agree was a very pleasing event speakers was immensely overbalanced by with us that it dancthe argument of the affirmative and as a Unlike most of the College parties result the Agricultural College won the ing was of secondary importance the debate for years principal feature being the class drills first One seeing the girls running about held in Logan afduring the few hours preceding the Seeing that the decision was in our fafair would undoubtedly have concluded vor our comments on some things noBut one ticeable in the conduct of the colleges that they were “swarming inter-collegia- te inter-collegia- te |