West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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By this time Arthur Hill had seventeen out of the possible twenty points and we were one of the thirty-two high schools that were entered ill the State Elimination Contest; however, there were only nineteen out of the 135 debating teams that had made seventeen or more points. The first series of the elimination debates were held March 24, and our negative team went to Alma. The debaters who represented Arthur Hill in this debate were Ben Wells, Lawrence Raymond and Albertine Schmidtke. As you can well expect, it was the best debate of the year. The sparks surely did fly back and forth there. It took ten minutes after the debate was over before one judge could make up his mind which team had won. When the ballots were finally opened, we learned that the decision was two to one in favor of Alma. The fact that this debate was lost should by no means be considered as a disgrace, because this is the first time that Arthur Hill has ever gone so far in debating as to even enter the elimination contest. The question in all the debates was, Resolved, that the principle of the closed shop in American industry should receive the support of public opinion. ALBERTINE SCHMIDTKE, ' 22. DEBATING TEAM