The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-05
THE HILLHOUSE DEBATE.
Features of a Most Successful Contest
Much Brilliant Oratory Displayed.

Much Brilliant Oratory Displayed.
The second annual debate between thu
Girls and Boys Debating societies o
the Hillhouse high school, held on Fri
day evening, brief mention of which
was made Saturday, was highly en-
PERTAINING affair. The neat programmes
and the fine decorations added hugely
to the splendor of the occasion. Th'
debate was opened at shortly after s
The subject for discussion was: Re
solved, That England's claims in the
| present controversy with the South At
rican republic are justifable."
| The first speaker for the affirmative
was Miss Sadie Kane 1901, who narrow
ed herself down to brief history of the
Beers and ended by calling for pity
from the audience. Although hel
address was full of rare phraseology
guments
The second speaker, Harry 7. Shell
don, on the negative side, made an elo-
quent and logical statement of facts
maintaining most plausibly that Eng
fish suzerainty, the main claim, was not
In existence Mr.. Sheldon's rare orator
ical ability was displayed In this ad-
dress. He possesses remarkably fine
voice and enunciation, and his points
founded on logic and quoted authority
were very convincing, impressing the
audience with indignation against Eng
land. In opening Mr.. Sheldon said:
From the first England has followed a
course of marked injustice and fraud
in all her dealings with the Beers. She
has cheated them in all possible respects
and at present, by her claims and by
forcing war which might easily have
been avoided she is creating the great
est outrage, the greatest scandal, in her
history"
Miss Albee, the second affirmative
speaker, failed to back her statements
by authority and made certain conces-
sions which were used to advantage by
the boys later in rebuttal.
The second negative speaker, Harry
Frost Burgess, although good in argu-
ment, lacked the voice and vim which
his colleague, Sheldon, had manifested.
He prefaced his remarks by saying:
There are always two sides to a ques-
ton, and the fact that the young la
dies, my honorable opponents, have the
affirmative Is no reason why that side
must be regarded as the right one. In
this case they are in the wrong, and I
beg of you not to believe the statements
they make" He then proceeded to
enumerate England's claims and to
maintain that all Of the claims
were unjust.
al
Canada, as her preceding colleagues had
done, failed to back her arguments by
hard facts. She tried to show that
England was endeavoring to overcome
certain grievances which were inflicted
on the Uitlanders, but she neglected
proof and the fact that England had
agreed not to NEEDLE in the internal at
fairs of the Beers, as Blackman, the
last negative speaker, showed in his
able address, in which he maintained
that the claims Of England are all UNI
just, both by the treaty preambles and
by international law. His address was
full of points, but his delivery, by fail
ing to separate clearly his different
points, was rather faulty yet his clear
voice somewhat atoned for this defect.
In rebuttal all the speakers were good,
the boys, who took up all the
points Of the girls and maintained them
to be unsound in very systematic
way. Sheldon closed the debate in
very mastery way and was even more
forcible in this extemporaneous address
than in his former prepared speech On
the WHOLE the entire affair was grand
success. w. W., 8b.