Highland Park College - Piper Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Forensics Debating Oratory Contest Oratory Club

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lained revenge for ils clel'eal at Des Moines, by healing the Highlancl Park Engi- neers by a score ol' 20 lo 17. The score was lied at the end ol' lhe regular period, and in the exlra live min- utes of play the locals made a basket and a successful free throw which won them the game. Clark was lhe star for Ilighlanrl Park College. l-le made sixteen ol' lhe lolal seventeen poinls l'or lhe visilors. , f-' ' H ' ORATORY TEAM Moonns, 'l',x1,LM,xN, Wmssrm: Wlss'roN, Dm'r'r Ornna, PIEIHCRSUN HOU! WAH! WAH! HOU! WAH! WAIJI! I-l.lGHl.AND! HIGHLAND! IAIOO! WAH! WAH! llhav1iA'l'J 1 C. T. GOOIDXVILL, Yell Ll'lldl'l'

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Christiansen Converse NVeston Qlnllrgr Evtmting 74 X S a collegiate activity, not properly included in the curriculum ot' our school, intercollegiate debating is a work ol' inestima- QM is ble importance. Debating offers the student an opportunity -uw to study economic, social, and political questions, a valuable l ' training, and conducive to good citizenship. It brings into de- mand the quick and ready powers ot' mindg depends upon clear and t'orcel'ul statement, and simple and attractive delivery, to gain the desired conviction. Debating is an activity, broad enough to interpret and energize a wide range ot studiesg to give zest to learning, and mastery to the learner, and shows what the intellectual life ot' a college is worth in making men intellectually ettieient among their peers. The significance ot' debating as an activity by which to judge the worth ot' a school is truthfully expressed by one ot' the great American edu- cators, when he says: The college that sends to the intercollegiate platform, men who have grasped, and who can see, seize, follow, place, and persuade, whether through courses in her class rooms or through 4, W-t' ., 'itggiitlmgl iq' 5 i l i xlw' f i X l the intellectual vitality ot' her student clubs, has taught those men well, . 99 . . , . K. 1 ,- and proved her right to teach many others. Fon these reasons, tt bating should, and is being given greater prominence in the more pro- gressive institutions ot' learning.