St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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First Row, Left to Rujlit: R. Piclstickcr. ltadaracco. Weldon. Chism. Heinrich. DeMars. Cotter, F. O. Smith. Second Row. Noonan. Forties. Ingri» ll, (I. Doyle. Kretz. Adams. Kjar, Herrick. McGinley. Third Row: Dalton. R. Sullivan. Ko|»| C'. Schilling, F. E. Smith. George. 1. Daly. Coyne. tourth Row Ekstroni. Woods, Engles. Zaccagnini. McKenzie. Rochel. Martin Clark. Fifth Row: Caldwell. Leckron, Xunaii, J. Collins. II. Muelhaujit. II. i'rosslaml. K. Adler. Sixth Row Fettkethcr, Howe, Welsh. I Make, W. F. Hums. Seventh Row llellings. Mooney. McMimlcs. Curtin. Owen, IS. Duffy. Tof Row Mueller, Hazel. 1 . I.amy, Averill. Jog. McDermott, Keefe, Frauenfi-ldcr. Obe 3unior TLitcrary Society IE Junior Literary Society, under the directorship of Mr. Stephen G. O’Rourke, has completed another banner year of its existence. This year’s Junior Literary has striven to maintain the high standard of the Junior Literary Societies of the past. Our organization began its term in the early part of October, and with slight variation, has met every Monday evening during the year. Mr. O’Rourke has striven diligently to make every program interesting, instructive. and useful. The topics for debate and the current topics were selected with great care and were generally presented in a way that bore witness to diligent preparation on the part of the speakers. The members were conscious of the great good to be derived from the exercises, and made the effort necessary to insure success when their appointed time came to communicate their ideas by means of the spoken word. Now that our year has ended, now that we close our books for ’26 and ’27. we wish to express our gratitude to our esteemed Moderator, and to all who have aided us in our work for their efforts in our behalf. May the Junior Literary Society of the future continue to inspire its members and draw them ever onward to attempt greater things. Page One Hundred Twenty-two

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First Row. I.cft to Right Fr. Spalding. S. J.. McNarv. Hays. Smith. Downing. Jos. Huglu-s, I . Kcillcy. Second Ron-: McAufiffc. Yeung, York. Ilcffcrnan. (!. Morri«cy. Hoffmans. I). NIurphy. Third Row J. Smith. McGinnis. Lex, John Hughes. J. Walsh. Gassman. SlcCall. Jfresbman JDebaUttg Socictv HR Freshman Philalethic Society was instituted primarily for the purpose of relieving the congestion in the College Debating Society, thereby affording the individual members more numerous opportunities of appearing in public. It not only succeeded admirably in the accomplishment of its end. but also proved to be one of the most popular and efficient organizations in the school. About thirty members were present at the initial gathering to express their choice for governing officials. During the next eight months the society carried on its work with enthusiasm and zeal. An extensive program of debates and discussions was scheduled. Among the many questions fought out in forensic combat there were such timely and interesting topics as The Foreign War Debt, The Mexican Situation. Federal Control of Education. Negro Suffrage, Capital Punishment, and Presidential Possibilities of 1928. The activity of the Freshman Philalethic Society was by no means confined to these sessions. Two of its members qualified for the Harbaugh Debate and carried off all honors by jointly winning the decision of the judges, while one received the Washington medal presented to the best debater of the evening. In the elocution contest four of the five participants were from the Freshman society. The Society was also represented in the Ryan Oratorical contest, the Intercollegiate Constitutional Oratorical Contest, and on the Educational Week Program. rage One Hundred Twenty-one

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First Row. I.eft to Right: Kelley. L. O'Rourke. Cabman, John Adler. Second Row: Baucrlcin. Ileffernan. H'farbaugb debate S3 HR annual Ilarbaugh Debate was held on the eve of Washington’s Birth-day. Kebruary 21. This debate determines the winner of the ashington Medal, which is donated yearly by Mr. Simon J. Harbaugh of Chicago. The subject under discussion was: “Resolved, That Congress is justified in adopting legislation embodying the principles of the McNary-Haugen Bill. The affirmative team, composed of Messrs. Theodore Bauerlein and Thomas Kelley, battled for forensic honors with their opponents. Messrs. Remi Classman and Robert Ileffernan of the negative team. The verbal battle was fiercely fought and the honors reposed now on one side, now on the other. The affirmative presented the McNary-Haugen Bill as the logical solution of the farmer’s problem, while the negative strove to show that the Bill was economically unsound and that such a plan as it advocated would bring about the destruction of the farming industry. The judges, after much deliberation, awarded the debate to the negative team and gave the Washington Medal to Remi Classman, whom they considered the best speaker of the evening. The debaters, excellent in the delivery of their constructive speeches, honorably upheld the standard set by their predecessors of former years. They proved themselves to be men of the caliber that St. Mary’s College and the Catholic Church needs in the nation’s fields of forensic endeavor. Page One Hundred. Twenty-three