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Show Students Prepare for Colorado Debate Preliminary Contest for Selection of Team to Be Held on. April 7. Debaters at the university will meet in a preliminary contest on April 7 to select a team to represent tho University of Utah in an Intercollegiate debate with Colorado college. The closed shop system will bo tho subject discussed. The final contest will bo held at Colorado Springs In May. Seven prominent debaters have nntercd tho contest, and the prollmlnnry gives promise of some good debating. Dnnlel Alexander and Dale II. Parki. the two Utah debaters who recently met Idaho, have entered tho preliminary, as has Thomas M. Reese, who represented tho university In at debating contest with Nevada Ne-vada two years ago. Other prominent aspirants as-pirants aro Karl Hopkins of tho University Univer-sity Chronicle staff. Claude Barnes, who holds tho position of first alternate In tho debate with tho UnlVorslty of Denver, and N. G. Morgan, also a member of the Chronicle staff An Innovation has been made In selecting select-ing tho JudGOS, and for tho first time In the history of university debating tho faculty Is not represented. Considerable time was spent discussing this quostlon at yesterday's meeting and at its closo the students agreed to request the following fol-lowing to act as judges: Rev. E. I. Goshen and Judges Rltchlo and Armstrong. Arm-strong. Last year tho university met and defeated de-feated the Colorado College debaters in a closely contested debate, held In this city. If Utah wins this contest she will bo awarded the championship, while a victory vic-tory for Colorado will mean a tlo. According Ac-cording to reports the students of both schools aro working hard to win. |