The Web THROUGHOUT nine years Weber has grown and developed extensively, reaching out into many communities, creating friendly associations, and broadening through contact. Debate has been one of the greatest mediums by which these valuable friendships have been formed. This year, once more, Weber has extended to colleges and universities throughout the country, the hand of friendship gloved in the competition of argumentation. She may be compared to a spider, resting in a valley in the Rocky Mountains, weaving a huge web that incloses thirty-six of forty-eight states, exchanging with ninety-six schools a spirit of friendliness that makes for the betterment of each institution. This web is composed of six silken threads spreading over the United States, attached firmly to each university by a debate. The girls left Sacramento that evening and arrived at San Francisco, where they made their home for the next three days. On the second day they went to San Jose, which harbors one of the most beautiful schools they were to see on the entire trip. During the debate in the evening the girls grasped the opportunity before them for vindication by winning the debate with an audience decision. Monday, February twenty-fourth, found them at Santa Rosa College. Santa Rosa, as always, the perfect host, after defeating our team 3-0, proceeded next day to show them a good time. Both girls were impressed with the friendly feeling existing between the two schools. That evening they competed at Stockton, California in a non-decision contest. The following day they debated in Bakersfield, One thread was laid down by a debating team of girls, Miss Alice Sorensen and Miss Harriet Woolley who placed it firmly in Nevada and California. On Sunday afternoon, February 15, 1931, they boarded a train for Reno, Nevada. Upon their arrival they were taken to the scenic spots of the city and then to the University of Nevada. At home, we of the student-body really expected to hear of the two girls trying to crash the divorce court to obtain first-hand information; but our insatiable thirst for gossip was left unquenched while they proceeded on their way to Sacramento, California. Since the debate at Reno had been non-decision, they had not really been initiated into the fore of criticism, and the journey to Sacramento was made in high spirits. There they were royally entertained by the debate manager of Sacramento Junior College. In the evening, when the arguments pro and con had been given on the subject: "Resolved, that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade," the votes were counted and our team fell short by two points. the center of the oil district of California. They Were defeated by Kern County Junior College. The next day they met the California Institute of Technology, a school for men, at Pasadena, but no decision was given. That evening they won by an audience decision from a girls' team of the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. On March second they contended with Redlands College at Redlands and were defeated. The final debate was with the San Diego State Teachers College of San Diego, a non-decision contest. After the debate they visited Tiajuana over the Mexican border. The trip home was made by way of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Reno. They had been gone twenty-two days and had participated in ten debates. Of this number they lost four, won three, and three were non-decision. Meanwhile three teams were tying silken threads in other sections of the United States. One team composed of Jetta Barker and Fawn McKay was in Chicago; a second team, Leland Marsh and Elmer