The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-20
HELD THEIR H0NORS
Mankato High Debaters Win
Last Nights Contest.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From Saturdays Daily
In the only debate held on the home
ground, the Mankato high school
team last night won from the Fari.
bault team. The attendance was large
but the normal assembly room, where
the debate took place, could have
held many more, and it is regrettable
that not more adults were present, to
manifest their interest in the school,
and its young champions.
The Faribault team had the affirma
tive side of the question, Resolved
that the federal government should
subsidize the southern states for the
education of the southern negroes
Granted that it would be constitu-
tlonal, and that the southern whites
would not object" The Mankato team
had the negative.
The Faribault Representatives..
The Faribault representatives were
Spencer Phelps, Guy Hester and Law
renee Mealia. They were accompanied
only by Superintendent Jones of the
Faribault schools, so the roofing was
all done by the local high school boys,
who kept up din until the program
opened.
The NIankato team, as all know,
is composed of Earl King, Walter
koeppen and Miss Margaret Marsh.
The judges We're Superintendent L. S.
Overholt of Rochester, V. G. Pickett of
Waseca and p. j. Koontz of Owatonna
Superintendent Mcconnell called the
meeting to order and advised that the
audience refrain from applauding any
of the debaters, inasmuch as no dele
CATION accompanied the Faribault de-
baters. He then turned the debate
over to President Evan Hughes of the
schol board, who presided.
The High School Girls Glee club,
numbering twenty, under the direction
of Miss Fanny Pitcher, the supervisor
of music, rendered song in a very
delightful manner, but refused to be
enchored, much to the disappointment
of the audience.
Each One Given Ten Minutes.
Each debater had ten minutes to
lead off with and five minutes for re-
buttal Both sides marshalled all pos
sible arguments in a clear and forcible
manner. Spencer Cox, who opened and
closed for Faribault, proved to be
a star of considerable brightness, and
his two comrades stars, but of consid
erably less magnitude i'll the forsenic
heavens. They enforced their argu
ments with gesticulations to drive
home the points scored. The Nlankato
debaters were not so emphatic, but
seemed to compensate for this by am
plitude of argument. To Miss Marsh
was generally conceded the honors of
the evening so far as the Mankato
speech-and, woman-like, she had the
last to say for the Mankato side-she
fired broadsides into the arguments and
facts of the opposing side. In fact,
she was rapid fire gun, and sent the
nimsy portions of the enemy's works
like house of cards. The
audience could not refrain from dis
Superintendent McConnell's
injunction to avoid applause at the
close of her remarks, but ii gave gen
erous compensation to the Faribault |
team when MIR. Phelps closed his side
of the debate.
The judges found in favor of the
Mankato team, two to one, which was
another incentive for applause.
The Mankato team has won three of /
its four debates this winter, and has |
reflected great credit upon its mem
,ers as well as upon the school that |
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