| Show I Now How Manager Parke Won the Debate J By Sis Sis 06 Manager Parke announced quite extensively that there would be something doing in Room 22 on Thursday which would be more interesting interesting interesting in in- if heard owing heard owing to the extreme delicacy of the manager manager- than n if read about in the Herald the morning after it happened It was to be a contest in talkative gymnastics and five unsuspecting gentlemen gentle gentle- men were enticed into the room loom to act as judges of the preliminary if contest Soule acted as time Rev Goshen was the first judge i to realize what he was up against and earnestly pleaded a previous previus engagement The three professors wondered at a preacher protesting t Fl against speeches with time limits attached while each wondered at the theY theother's theother's Y others other's powers of endurance Alexander fired the first shot shot heard heard round the the campus which campus which so startled Parke that he was seen looking k in at the transom to get the real accuracy of Dans Dan's aim for aim for the Her Her- ald Dan boldly addressed the judges and the one lonely prep in inthe l the rear of the room room for for Jensen was yas under a seat trying t to get a ascoop scoop as Honored Judges Judges' Ladies and Gentlemen and Friends Then he lie hammered away until he was stopped by Soule Hanson followed followed followed fol fol- lowed in a set speech which made the prep wriggle in his seat with admiration Then came Reese walking on air while Parke again tiptoed to the transom with rith e expectation While Reese Rees was talking the i judges could lean back in m their seats and still hear him for Tom TonI was wasa a f fearfully in earnest and when TonI Tom gets in earnest he can easily be tr 1 heard leal d t Smiling the thc judges into his favor came the mighty Parke who for fifteen or twenty minutes kept up tip a steady stream of distilled oratory oratory oratory ora ora- tory and then was not through for after Rev Goshen finally begged off Parke had Sissy Marshall read a negative argument which he Parke had prepared with great care that he lie might have leave a chance at rebuttal The scheme scheme worked admirably for when the judges to totaled totaled to- to 4 up their findings Alexander and Parke were selected to go to 1 Moscow l This scheme Parke denies declaring that it was only on T. T account of his good l looks that he lie was chosen l As a warning to future aspirants for oratorical fame it should be remembered that a precedent has been established The successful debaters de de- haters baters took student who had remained in the building during the thc bombardment bombardment bom born down to the bun house Manager l Parke is of the opinion t r that this is t the le strongest team ever turned out by the University t. t t. t it To the Chronicle 1 t A HB Be e mine J f fair aIr one ne I lie Ie n meekly ee 1 b s said d Jf f r t ReI glance his Ius blood dId freeze l Ji nall tl the e maiden maidel cried ri d' d f s f Whose lOse pants bag at the knees |
