Albion State Normal School - Sage Yearbook (Albion, ID)

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Eehating 'Of all the student activities, considered from either intellectual or athletic standpoint, this de- partment stands first, and it should stand first. Tell me, said Goeth, What your young men of twenty are thinking about, and I will tell you the future of the state. Men in public life have attested again and again to the value of debating Societies as one of the most effective means to train young citizens in civil and national affairs. It is not enough to have an idea, but you must be able to express that idea in good, forcible English III order to give that idea motive power. Debating SIVGS the students training in self-control, formas tion of correct habits of speech, power to organize thought and ability to recognize sound reasoning. The schools in the inter-Schoolastic League in Southeastern Idaho are the high schools at Twin Falls, Pocatello, Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, the Acad- emies of Rexburg and Pocatello and the Albion Normal School. The Subject for debate was: Resolved, that Idaho should by a constitutional amendment adopt a system of initiative and re- ferendum similar to that of Article IV of the Con- stitution of Oregon. Each school prepared an ftfiirmative team and a negative team, the rule be- lllg that the former team remain at home and the latter team go meet the outside school. The above question was Hrst debated in the Emersonian and Philomathean Societies. Later thirteen students entered the final try-out and of this number the following teams were chosen: Affirmative: John Hillman, Triphosa Pratt and Charles M-abbutt, with Ellen Larsen as alternate Negative: F. B. Dotson, James Mahoney and J. Lyman Smith with Frank Johnson as alternate. The final contest to determine the championship of southeastern Idaho was held March 19, 1909 at Rexburg. The negative team as given abovewon, and gave Alibon the much coveted championship. The debating work has been entirely in tue hands of Prof. Louis A. Bauman, who has had considerable 'experience in college debating. Prot. Bauman has worked faithfully with students and is deserving of a great of credit for the high standard attained in debate. We pride ourselves on the work done by the Normal school, but We are not content to rest on our laurels of the past. If hard work and rugged determination can do it, we won't be satisiied with anything less than the state championship next year.

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Preliminary ?lBzhate Albion State Normal School, January 22, 1909. President of the Evening, Prof. Louis A. Bauman. Judges: Miss Eva Smith, Prof. C. E. Bocock, Prof. J. L. Sten- quist. PROGRAM. Music .......................................... Orchestra First Debate: Resolved, that Idaho should by Constitutional Amendment Adopt a System of Initiative and Referendum similar to that of Article IV of the Constitution of Oregon. Aiiirmative. John Hillman Frank Johnson Eva Minear J. Lyman Smith Negative. Frank Dotson Rose Zpevaoek Ward Smith Leslie Meachem Music ................................... . . . Orchestra Second Debate: Same question as above. Affirmative. James Mahoney Triphosa Pratt Edward Jones Negative. Ellen Larson Renaldo Jones Charles Mabbutt Music .............. . . . Orchestra Decision of Judges.

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1Lit21farp IEQBSIJ BREED TEIJ2 Baum anti Q9ut Qliluh By Rose Turner Should you ask us whence these storie Whence these jokes and memories, With the odor of the fudges With the gay and girlish laughter, With the running thru the long halls With the echo of quick foot-steps, 'With the frequent repetition And their Wild glad jubilee, We should answer, We should tell you From the North Wing, from the North wing, From tl1e great and famous North Wing, From the land of 'Down and Outs! From the land that now We live in, From the rooms and halls and Windows Where we live and mourn together Over many broken hearts. We repeat them as we heard them, From our daily life among them, From the lips of happy girlies, From the songs of merry singers, Ye who love the 'upper North Wing, Love tl1e mirth of that great hall, Love the sunshine of the gay ones And the smiling 'Down and Outs,' Love the days you spent at Normal And your friends of Normal, days, Love to hear of fun and struggle: Listen ye to these old stories Of the life of 'Down and Outsl' Ye who love our dear old Normal Love the legends of her students: Which like laughter from afar Speaks in tones so gay and merry That the years roll back as one, Listen to this mixed up story, To the history of our tribe! Ye whose hearts are large and yearning With a steady now in viewg You have made a splendid catching: Greater than our expectations. Listen to our awful wailing! We have lost a mighty member. O, ye maidens of our Prep school, O. ye ones Who've yet to come, Hearken now unto our story+- To the memories of our club! Ye who think that you 're not in ity And ye strugglers with your paint. Take a lesson from our efforts, For your time is soon to come. Ye Whose hearts are fresh and simple, Wl'1o have lately come to Normal, Read this true, but heartless story Of your beauless predecessors.