The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-26

Oratorically and argumentatively supe-
rior to those who seek out the myster-
les of Euclid and follow the wanderings
of Ulysses in the state educational in
stitution of Nevada. They have proved
that they are the better speakers and
the better trained debaters, and that
their knowledge and grasp of a great
subject which is troubling older and
wiser heads than theirs is more extern
sive and secure.
All this was decided last evening at
the Salt Lake theatre, when the repre-
sentatives Of the two institutions of
learning met in a discussion of the
question OF advisability and benefits OF
expansion. The arguments on the
question were not confined alone to the
feasibility of a retention of the Philip
pine islands, but they extended to the
wisdom of Incorporating Canada, Mex
leo and other contiguous territory in
the domain looked after by Uncle Sam.
The debaters for the University of Utah
took the affirmative Of the question and
they received the unanimous decision
Of the judges
n. T. Porter Arthur yelling and En-
nest BTamWell were the young men
who brought the honor of victory in
en- inter university debate to the Utah
institution. 1t is to them that all the
encOmiums of praise must go, for they
richly and deservedly earned the unan-
imOus decision that the judges gave to
them. They established themselves as
thinkers and speakers that the people
of the state may point to with pride as
representative of the work being done
IN that line at the university.
Was a Hard Struggle.
Though there was no doubt in the
minds of any one in the audience as to
whose was the victory, even before the
judges had returned from their confer
ence, still it was not won without
struggle. 1t was a great inter-cOlle-
giate battle OF minds right from the
start, and the Nevada representatives,
E. D. Lyman, P. A. AIcCarron and Miss
Title Kruger, fought hard to maintain
their side of the question. The debate
which they presented was carefully pre-
pared and the arguments advanced
We're thoughtful But the Utah debat-
ers were more mastery in their discus
sion of the question and theirs was the
Well-earned victory.
Considered from every viewpoint. it
was d great event in the history of the
two educational institutions It was a
great event for Salt Lake, and the staid
and stately citizens who dropped in to
see what their sons and their neighbOrs'
sons had imbibed from the fountain of
knowledge over at the university went
away with an exalted idea of a univer-
sity education and its training in prac-
teal lines. Those who came to enjoy
with the eXuberant students the sang
frOid and the sans gene spirit of modern
cOliegianism as it is eXemplified in the
colleges in the east could not complain,
for there was spirit in abundance.
Many Of the elements that are con-
tributed by students at great college
occasions TO help along the enthusiasm
were lacking. The rOOters who usually
make the air hideOus at athletic con-
tests. were there behind a prOfusiOn of
college cOlOrs and with their best girls.
But they didn't let a little thing like
the presence of the gentler sex deter
them from expressing their feelings.
They didn't consider whether their ears
would be Jared by the cOnglOmeration
OF Greek, Chinese and Apache sounds
into one long Tag-time Outburst, but
they insisted in the early part Of the
evening and at particular points during
the debate in turning off the valve on
their much strengthened lungs
Plenty of Enthusiasm.
This youthful exubersnce was not
=
the athletes who came over from Ne
vada along with the debaters had few
yells of their own. which they hesitated
not to utter. One of them was a long.
patched-up affair, ending in a sneeze.
It made hit. Such aboriginal sounds
probably never before stirred the at
mOspheTe in the classical old building
dedicated TO ThesDis.
But the real OutburSt of the evening.
the mani faGfaffCT If COLLEGE CFaiTfr
capped the prOVerbial climax, came
after the decision of the judges had
been announced by the chairman of the
evening, Judge Howat.
The judges have unanimously
awarded the debate to the affirmative"
said the chairman. and as soon as it
had all dawned on the students, a great
cheer arose. Representatives of the
fair sex were standing in the aisles
dOnning their wraps, but their male
escorts VOTED not of the results and
climbed over the seats until they had
reached the stage. Up they went over
the fOOtlights in lunches anC hunted
out the Utah debaters.
Professor Lyman was one of the first
of them. He ran into Ernest Bran
well. and embraced him with one of
those lasting. affectionate hugs which
your Uncle Enhraim who roams the
mountains wild so delights in. Next
he embraced y. T. Porter with just as
enthusiastic an embrace and then he
found Arthur yelling
Arthur. my boy, that was a great
debate" he managed to Say as he
threw his arms around the victorious
debater and raised him aloft. BY this
time the students had gained the stage
and three of the more athletic of them
lifted the victOrs on their shoulders
and started for the parquet. They saw
no way down except 10 jump over the
footlights or To GO through the boxes
and they crashed through the latter
George Pypers chairs were the suf-
ferers, but what did they care for
qhairs when they had won?
Paraded the Streets
Out the procession went to the
street. where the enthusiasm was IN
bounded. The flute like voices of fair
ones mingled with the bassos of their
brethren in three long enthusiastic
cheers for the young men who had
won. \ procession was quickly formed
and wandering pedestrians out for
their evening constitutional wondered
if the town has gone crazy or if they
had been asleep and this was the night
Of q presidential election.
But II wasn't either. It was just col
lege spirit.
The Theatre was most tastefulIy
decorated for the occasion. Over the
stage we're hung small flags, with the
blue of Nevada alternating with the
aTimsoh and white Of the university Of