University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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I A-, = flJi= fN) Provo, Utah, and one with the College of Pacific, of San Jose, California. In the debate with Brigham Young our team went to Utah, while the one with the College of Pacific was contested at our own University. Also this year two plays have been staged. The first was a one-act comedy entitled, The Football Game, and was given the first semester at the annual foot- ball rally. In the spring A Pair of Sixes, a popular three-act drama, was staged successfully in Reno and neighboring towns. Through the efforts of Clionia a keener interest in debate and other literary work is being displayed among the students. It is the aim of this organization to bring about the time when the work which this So- ciety is fostering will be one of the main features in student body activities. 172

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vlISIA- CLIONIA SOCIETY Wallace Walter, President Emily Burke, Vice-President Adele Armstrong, Secretary Charles Miller, Treasurer Morris Badt, Debate Manager Geryy Eden, Dramatic Manager Professor A. E. Turner, Faculty Advisor Ray Law, Publicity IHE Cliona Society was organized seven years ago under the name of the Debating Club. The main purpose of this club was the fur- thering of debate among the college students. With the growth of the University the organization likewise expanded, so three years ago it was reorganized under the name of the Clionia Society and a new constitution was championed to include debating, literary and dramatic work. The name Clionia is a Greek word meaning a proclaimer of the truth and it has always been the aim of the officers and members of the organ- ization to uphold all that it symbolizes. One of the principals in the reorganization o f this Society was Pro- fessor A. E. Turner. Professor Turner has taken an active and untiring interest in its work from the time he first became a member of the Faculty and much of its success can be attributed to him. Clionia meetings, which are held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month, are conducted under strict parliamentary rules, with Rob- erts ' Rules of Order being used as a guide. After some of the meetings throughout the year a course in parliam.entary law is given under the supervision of Professor Turner. At these times different members of the organization are called upon to take the chair and the order is turned into a House of Parliament. Once a month a portion of the meeting is devoted to social work and this gives all members an opportunity to present readings, dramatic skits and musical numbers. During the year nineteen-twenty Clionia fostered the inter-class de- bates, an inter- collegiate debate with the Brigham Young University, of ' .• ' ' .1 ' ■— rn 171

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AJiTEM ISIA DEBATE WITH each year that is added to the history of the University a greater and stronger interest is being manifested in the art of debate. There is now a realization among the students that oratory is one of the prime factors for the culmination of a suc- cessful business career, whether their profession be that of a lawyer, doc- tor, engineer or business man. Furthermore, that their ability to meet the public is brought about by their means of being able to stand before an audience and expressing what they have to say in a clear, concise, logical and coherent manner. At various periods in the growth of the University organizations and clubs have been formed for the purpose of furthering oratory. These societies have prospered famously for a short time and the interest would wane and then they would die out. With organization of the Debating Club, which was reorganized under the name of Clionia, a new morale was put into the art of debate and oratory and with each successive year of its history a stronger manifestation of this spirit has been realized. This factor of class activities has become so well established that the University has appropriated a certain sum of money, to be set aside each year for defraying expenses of debaters to other colleges, in order that they may represent this University in inter-collegiate debate. In ail debates, both inter-class and inter-collegiate, it is our aim to choose subjects which are vital to the day. One of the subjects which we discussed in inter-ollegiate debate and which was contested on the plat- form of the Brigham Young University auditorium, of Provo, Utah, was : Resolved, that the Right of Workers to Bargain Collectively Through Their Chosen Representatives Should be Recognized by Their Employers. The speakers from this University were Mr. Paul Hornaday, first speaker, and Mr. John Belford, second speaker. The second inter-collegiate debate was held upon our own grounds with the College of Pacific and the subject was, Resolved, that the United States Should Establish a Protectorate over Mexico. The negative side of this question was upheld by our team consisting of Mr. John Belford and Mr. Charles Miller. The subject for our inter-class debate was : Resolved, that Shantung Should Have Been Returned to China during the Recent Peace Confer- isCX JmT m 173