Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-06-17
FIRST BLOOD.
Columbians Take the Inter
society Debate.

dered-Good Order Preseryed-The
Details.
The first annual joint debate was
held on Friday night between the
Columbian and Parthenon Literary
Societies of the University. The re
suit of the contest was a Waterloo
tor the Parthenons as the decision
of the Judges was unanimous for the
Columbians. This is the first of the
contest which has been divided into
two parts, the debate having a sepa-
rate night from the rest.
The contest took place in Com
mencement Hall and the building
was fairly well filled. There was not
as large crowd out as there had
been to the Moot trial of the night
before but the interest evinced was
very great and the order was much
better than it had been at the form
er occasion.
DR.. Raymond presided over the
exercises and introduced the speak
ers. The entertainment of the eve
ming was opened by the University
Orchestra which rendered waltz,
4.Impassioned Dream" receiving a
round of applause. Miss Howe fol-
lowed with Loves Dream on the
piano She as usual rendered the
selection magnificently and was Civ
en- rapt attention.
The fist speaker Of the evening
was introduced The question for
debate was, Resolved, That the best
interests of the United States de-
mand the extension of her territory
beyond the North American CONT
nent. Mr.. William Wellington
Hughes Of the Columbian Society
was the first speaker.
Mr.. Hughes was self possessed
and delivered very fine production.
His enunciation at times was not
clear and this is the only thing that
detracted in the slightest from his
performance His gestures were
good and his points we'll taken. He
received a great deal of applause
when he had finished his opening
address.
Mr.. Robert Guy was the next
speaker. He took up the question
as his side of the case viewed it and
showed how differently it was from
the way the affirmative treated it.
1t was not the good that we might
do for others but the profit
for ourselves that was involved His
voice was very poor and he suffered
from some throat affection.
The Women's Glee Club sang the
sGondoliers Song" and did it so
well that they were forced to respond
to an enthusiastic encore
The Second speaker for the affir
nation Mr. Emory Ison Ireland
came next Mr. Ireland was very
much at home on the platform and
gave very smooth performance.
His voice was not strong but other
wise he had very fine performance.
He was followed by Mr.. Alpheus
Wilson Smith followed and closed
the debate for the negative. Mr..
Smith was at his best and he delv
cred magnificent production. His
voice was good and his gestures ele-
qhant The various points on the
the negative side Of the question
were hurled with great force at the
affirmative and the audience was
aroused to great enthusiasm.
Mr.. Hudges then was given five
minutes to close the debate and he
employed the time very well making
some very good answers to the
points made by the negative.
Miss Houston rendered 1.-The two
skvlarks doing it in her usual ele-
giant manner Although a very
young lady Miss Houston is taking
high rank as pianist and her per
formances are always fine
The Mems Glee Club sang
ssstreams of silver moonbeams' and
while they were singing this the
Judges retired to make up their YER
dict. The audience was so taken
with the song that they insisted on
an encore but this was refused them.
The judges were @. $. Marshall
of New Cumberland, Prof. A. w.
Lorentz Of Morgantown, and Rev.
L. w. Barr Of Fairmont. The de
cision was unanimously in favor Of
the affirmative The grades were