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Show BASEBALL AND STUDY. Tvo or three weeks ago, in an article explaining explain-ing the efficacy of debate over stilted oratory in our schools and colleges, the writer asked: "Why is it wc hear' of no debating contests among the students-of our Catholic colleges? If such have taken place the fact has escaped our attention." The editor of The X"cw Freeman, of St. Johns, X. B., with true Canadian pride, objects to such wholesale censure, and invites The .'Intermountain Catholic to visit the maritime provinces of hs country. This is tantamount to declaring that, intpr- - v '.luuiif, iiinti JUICI- collegiate debates obtain inX'ath'olic educational institutions in-stitutions in Canada, similar to the one that took placo at Salt Lake between the students of the universities uni-versities of Utah and Colorado. Hence wc. present a boquet to Canada. Father Cronin of the Catholic Union and Times answers our query in a different way, at the same time striking at an indulgence that has grown to be an obstacle to thorough and complete education. In his school days, evidently, time had value; it was not two hours for "shinny" and one hour for Latin.' Were it so, the Catholic Union and Times would not have such n head as it has. Says Father Cronin in his paper: "Why ig it,',' asks the Intermountain Catholic, wc ..near of no debating contests among the students of our Catholic colleges?" Xo time for ! such mental folly in these days when baseball is in flower, bcholarslup can go 'way back and sit down m our scholastic halls. It is the ball twirlcr and the wire-faced "catcher, and the rest of the pug-nosed pug-nosed nine that .will delight the ladies' hearts and bear away laurel crowns. Debates, indeed! We have evoluted from all such monkish nonsense. Success in baseball is now the sign of the elect. Give us that, or give us death! - |