EVELYN NEILSON ELLA ROBINSON OTHELLO WHEATLEY ERNEST WARD ELLSWORTH WEAVER LESTER YOUNG FRANK MOURITSON JOHN GRIFFIN Debating DEBATING, in all its aspects, has become one of the outstanding activities of Weber College. Both for the oportunity it offers of developing an individual's powers of clear expression and of intelligent and consistent thinking, it is becoming more and more alluring to the college students. From a large number of enthusiastic debating-society members, the school representatives for this season, consisting of John Griffin, Ernest Ward, Lester Young, Ellsworth Weaver, Othello Wheatly, Frank Mouritson, Ella Robinson and Evelyn Nielsen, were selected. These students have done commendable work-work of which Weber College is proud. Weber won the division championship in the Utah- Idaho Junior College Debating League of 1927. The proposition debated in this league was: "Resolved that the United States Should Cancel all Loans made to European Nations Between the Dates of April 6, 1927, and December 1, 1920." On February 24, 1927, our negative team, represented by John Griffin and Ernest Ward, won a victory over the Ricks College affirmative team at Rexburg, the score being 85 points to 71% points. Our affirmative team, Frank Mouritsen and Othello Wheatly, lost to Ricks, however, on the same day by a score of 92 to 90 points. The ll1/2 point majority, as a result of these debates, insured Weber the Northern Division cham- pionship. The outcome of its participation in the final debates of the league, held at Salt Lake City, on February 26, was a defeat for Weber College, Dixie College winning over our affirmative team and Westminster College over our negative. To Dixie College, whose affirmative team was victorious over the Westminster College negative debaters, went the Utah-Idaho Junior College Debating Championship for 1927. Weber's lady debators, Miss Robinson and Miss Nielsen, brought a commendable victory to the college, by winning gloriously a closely-contested debate with the ladies' team of the Colorado State Teachers' College (represented by Miss Staton and Miss Smilt). The Weber College team upheld, on March 16 at Ogden, the affirmative side of the proposition: "Resolved that the Constitution of the United States Should be so Amended as to Give Congress the Power to Regulate Marriage and Divorce." Weber's team did exceptional work in the rebuttals, a fact which probably determined its triumph. The last debating activity of the season came on April 6, when Lester Young and Ellsworth Weaver, taking the negative side, defeated the Freshmen team of the University of Utah in an interesting, augmentative combat held before the student body of Weber. In the evening of the same day, the U. of U. negative team was victorious over the Weber College affirmative team, consisting of Ernest Ward and Frank Mouritson. The question debated was: "Resolved that Foreign Powers are Justified in Concentrating Military Forces in China."