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Show as usual utah debaters brought With debate cards, the latest articles on Non-Communistic countries, battered card files, and great expectations, the members of the University debate squad entered numerous forensic debate meets. After months of study and a quick revisal of all debate cases on the bus, the debaters landed at their destinations, only to find that each of them had also been entered into extemporaneous speaking and impromtu speaking or acting, interview, and interpretation. After five or more preliminary rounds of debate, many of our debate teams entered the final round and talked their way to victory in both debate and the other speech activities. These fluent and persuasive speakers came home weary but victorious after every western meet of the year, taking first place in the Pepperdine, Linficld, Logan, and the Utah Junior college meets. Two of our debate teams attended an Eastern meet in Georgetown, Washington, D. C. Attending the Denver and Montana meets our debaters proved their main contentions, refuted their opponents cases, and presented hot re-butals. As one of the top twenty-four teams of the country, Utah went to West Point to compete with the countries finest debaters. At the end of a successful year each debater had an abundance of knowledge on the pro's and con's of a non-communistic organization and the satisfaction of a job well done. 268 |