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Debate Season
Intercollegiate debating at Idaho
closed for 1917-18 with the dual debate
between the University and
Whitman Col1ege, April 12.
The year has been a successful
one for Idaho, her debaters winning
three out of five contests. The hrst
debate of the year was a dual with
\V. S. C. December 14, on the ques·
tion, "Resolved, that in their prac·
tical workings the government of
England was more democratic than
that of the United States immediately
preceding the present war."
Idaho won both debates. The
affirmative was upheld for Idaho by
Ralph Gochnour. \Valter Sandelius
and Ernesl Lindley. and the negative
by Charles Darling, Richard Ott and
Clarence Taylor.
The University of Montana was
In this debate the Uni­
met in a single debate at Missoula. March 29.
versity of Idaho defended the negative of the question, "Resolved, that
the program outlined by the American League to Enforce Peace should
be adopted by international agreement at the close of the present war:'
Montana won by a 2-to-1 vote of the judges. The Idaho team consisted
of Richard Ou and Walter Sandelius.
A special feature of the closing contest of the year between Whitman
College and Idaho was the fact that for the first time Idaho was represented
in an intercollegiate debate by a woman. Miss Dorothy Forch,
a freshman, and Alvin Denman, junior, debated Whitman in the University
auditorium. winning the unanimous decision of the three judges.
Ralph Gochnour and Carl Burke, both freshmen. represented Idaho on
the negative of the question in the debate at Walla Walla. Whitman
won at Walla Walla. securing the vote of Prof. H. C. Fowler of Lewiston
onnal. who acted as the single judge. The question debated was the
same as that used in the Idaho-Montana debate. except that the feasibility
of the initiation of the program of the American League was
granted.
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