St Scholastica High School - Scholastican Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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V THE ORATORICAL CONTEST Early in March oratorically inclined students were given the opportunity of dis! playing their talents in the Daily News Oratorical Contest. The rules of the con! test provided for a sinminute oration on some phase of the Constitution of the United States. Competition was opened to members of the junior and senior classes, sixty of whom applied for the first tryrout. The written speeches were submitted for inspection, and from these were selected the sixteen which best fulfilled the qualifications of an oration. The entrants for the finals were determined by an elimination contest, which took place on March 10. Contestants chosen were Jane Lorenz, Betty Lapp, Catherine Quinlisk, Marie Hoffmann, Eleanor Quiniisk, Geraldine Streff, and Catherine OiBoer, who gave their orations before judges from Loyola University on March 11. Many different aspects of the constitution were expounded. and all the speakers showed the great profit which they had received from their coachis efforts in training them. However, no matter how good several speeches may be there is always one which is outstanding. This time Betty Lapp, with an inspiring discourse on kiThe Constir tution, the Crystallization of the Best Ideals in Government, deservedly won the prize, a bronze plaque awarded by the Daily News. Entrance into this contest is no small step in the forensic career of S. S. A., and as we look into the crystal of the future, no impediment is seen in the road of its progress to greater heights in this field. CATHERINE OiBOYLE, i314 Page sixtyr'nine SCHOLASTICAN 1931 xQx N xxx x xv 4F

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wan w Wyhik elf . , 401 THE DEBATING CLUB LEAGUE DEBATES With the formation of the Catholic Girls Debating League by Father Evans, S.J., St. Scholastica, as always, took advantage of the opportunity to join this progressive cityrwide movement. A debating club was formed and a team composed of Marie Hoffmann, Marion Mulligan, Betty Lapp and Catherine OiBoyle began strenuous training. The team made its debut on the home ground on December 23, 1930. With Immaculata High School as their opponents they upheld the afhrmative of the reso' lution that iiChain stores are detrimental to the welfare of the American people. The question, one in which the whole country seems to be interested at the present time, made the encounter a lively one. Full of pep and vigor with the coming of the new year, the team journeyed to the west side on January 11, 1931. The second league debate took place at Siena High School when our girls for the hrst time battled on a foreign field. In this encounter they defended the negative side of the aforementioned question. Once again, with success, St. Scholastica voiced her opposition to the chain store movement. On their home ground the team met Visitation High School on Februi ary 22, 1931, in the third debate of the year. The league season closed on March 20 with the now experienced team traveling to the south side to meet St. Xavieris Academy. The chain store question had by this time gained much prominence in the league, and the unearthing of many new arguments was an interesting feature of this last debate. CATHERINE OiBOYLE, T31. SCHOLASTICAN1931

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