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Show UTONIAN Nineteen TwelveReview of the SeasonIT IS with pleasure that we look back over our debating season. Proudly do we point to the three debates and while we received favorable decisions in but two, yet we feel that our Logan team found victory in their defeat. It is a common contention of our debating that the winning of a debate should not be the sole object of a debate, but instead the debaters should work for clear, logical argument and forceful extemporaneous delivery. From the time that our coach took the debating material in hand, he has been working to this end, but during the transition from our old method of memorizing speeches, we have met with a number of humiliating defeats. We feel now that we are approaching the highest standard of debating and that the transition is about complete. It is, indeed, not only encouraging, but convincing that the form of debating advocated by Air. Roberts is effective and sound, from the fact that we defeated two teams with no small reputation. We whipped Denver in her own territory and with Colorado judges, a thing that has not been done for years. Oregon came to us with the scalps of Stanford still fresh at her belt, only to be deprived of her own. With sr.ch a reputation we can almost afford to sacrifice the one debate; besides, when we consider that none of the men on the Logan trip had ever been on a debating team before, we really have nothing to mourn over. We are truly sorry that we are to lose our coach just at a time when we feel that we are reaping the fruits of his hard labor, but we feel that he has established a debating precedent that will long stand and for which the students will forever be grateful. J110 |