The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-06
TRAINING COURSE is
HARD AND THOROUGH
Athletic Banquet Arousing
Interest; News From
The Schools
tBy Benjamin Rawlins.)

tBy Benjamin Rawlins)
The chapel program for Monday
last was as follows, Rev. Anderson Of
the M. e. church officiating: Prof. r.
Knox Montgomery, president of Mus
kiEgum college, was the speaker of
the morning. He entertained the
school highly by his witticisms and
at the same time taught the pupils q
number OF valuable lessons.
The debaters are ready for the con-
fict which will be waged next Friday
night. They have been working long
and hard this year and It is the opin-
ion of the faculty that there never
were teams in the history of Mt. Yer
non debates which worked with such
srroothness and unity. The work has
been progressing for long time and
the knowledge OF the subject is com
plete. Coach Cunlifre has kindly per-
mitted me to publish the following
statement of how the teams work
this year:
, In the first place, the teams are
chosen early in the fall by the fac
ulty. Then the eight men picked are
taken in charge by the coach and are
Immediately set to work. The teams
work diligently and with smoothness
for some time. There are general dis
cusslons for time, Then a number
of extemporaneous debates follow.
With general meetings until the first
briefs are ready right after Xmas, the
speeches are put in form. At this
time, the teams divide up and the
negative and affirmative teams work
apart from each other. When the
coach thinks that the debaters have
the question well In hand, he general
ly takes them TO the libraries In Co
lumbus for the finishing touches.
Then the teams start work on their
speeches. When they have written
their speeches TO their own satlsfac-
tion, they hand them over to the
coach for criticism. They go over
them again and again and finally get
them we'll In hand after about three
weeks time. The speeches written
and learned, the teams are ready to
work on rebuttal and delivery at
which they work very hard. Finally,
the work having gone on with very
little friction and confusion, the
teams are the finished article and are
ready TO show the citizens of Mt, Ver-
non, az we'll as the Newark and Zanes-
vile teams, some good debating.
This occurs the ninth of this month.
The Elmendorf lecturer at the high
school last Wednesday evening en-
tsrtained crowd with his vivid de-
scription OF the island of Java, aided
by the beautiful scenery exhibited in
stationary and motion pictures.
There viii be an athletic banquet
for the winners of the girls tourna-
ment last year, for this years foot
kali team and for this years basket
ball team. 1t viii be held at the X. OF
y. armory Saturday night, March "a,
at 1880, Tickets arc on sale at II.
gers jewelry store. at Lawler's drug
store and at the high school. An ef-
fort will be made to have az many as
possible of the old lettermen present.
Tue letters due the athletics will be
given at this time. The admission is
50 cents.
Supt. zemer has obtained Miss Ger
tSude Grant from New Jersey to Hll
the place vacated by Miss Walcott,
Miss Grant is a teacher OF great abil.
fly and no little experience. She has
taught in the New Jersey state nor.
NAL school. She comes TO us from
Toronto. Canada, having Just finished
4 course there.
Miss Deyalon and Miss Wood OF the
First ward visited the Canton schools
one day last week They report splen.
did work and felt they prohted by the
trip.
Miss Clark of the Davis building
was out Friday. Miss Bartlett OF the