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Show !8 The Dixie Owl, St. George, Utah DEBATING Any one who attended the debate held on the third Friday in March could not have gone away unconvinced that the Dixie Normal Colege has quality when it comes to using the brain just as much as when it comes to using our physical make-u- p in an athletic contest. Early in December we selected from our ranks four of our bravest braves to represent us in debating and to bring back to us at least two scalps. Unfortunately we got but one. To justify this, however, we can only say that we got but one chance. As brave as Cottam and Snow look from our own ranks, they must look even braver from the lines of the foe, for they had barely begun to prepaare for the fight when their opponents, the B. A. C., unable to get anyone to volunteer to undertake the enormous task of defeating the D. N. C., sent word that they would give up without a fight. We cannot exactly claim this victory but we feel confident that, had the contest been carried to a finish, Cottam and Snow would have brought the scalp to us in spite of any and all odds that may have been in the way. As for the one victory we did get, I can but think that it was in a way providential, not because Gates and Crawford were not prepared, but because of the fact that we even so much as got an opportunity to obtain it. This was due, undoubtedly, to the fact that at such a long range as the B. Y. U. were fighting from they could not see, even with their best glasses, all the ammunition, grenades, bombs, huge guns, and inexhaustable store of determination that our team had so carefully prepared and camouflaged. Our two opponents, both of the fairer sex, had no idea what they were facing when they entered Dixie, nor did they even suspect until the very time of the fight. It was with this backing that the heroes of our school met the feminine debators of Provo. Well might their plans have been ruined by admiration for the enemy but the steady nerve of Crawford, as he arose to make the first |
