debating hurrah for our debating team ! may they always be as successful as they were saturday april 25th when they defeated the salt lake high school this is the first debating our school has ever done and the victory certainly reflects credit on our institution the salt lake boys came up very confident of winning it was perfectly natural that they should be ; because they had debated before and had been in oratorical contests while our boys and girls were in experienced because our team lacked the experience they seemed to study harder and under the direction of mr j p goddard hunted reference books and filled the boards in room twelve with outlines their victory was anything but an easy one and was due to their hard study and constant application to the question before them a debating team is nearly always judged by rebutal speeches our students showed their ability when they were giving their final talks and certainly outclassed salt lake although the visitors were stronger than our team in delivery but students our team's career has just begun and they need our support the next debate will take place in park city and then the final will be held in the salt lake theatre students let the team feel that our hearts are with them our new principal wilford m mckendrick was born in took city toole co utah january 12 1870 his first blessing was that of noble god fearing parents who encouraged him to obtain a perfect education — physical mental and spiritual he attended the district school until he was fifteen when he be came a student of the b y academy at provo under dr carl g maesar from which school he was graduated with the degree of bache lor of pedagogy in 1895 the following year he was one of five teach ers to receive the church degree of bachelor of didactics he taught his first school at lake point toole county when he was seventeen years old two years later he became principal of the district school at monroe sevier county and in 1895 was appointed in structor of mathematics in the b y academy at provo where he re mained until 1898 from 1900 to 1902 he did missionary work in the southern states mission spending the first nine months in the south alabama confer ence and the remainder of the time in the office at chattanooga where he had charge of the correspondence of the mission he is remembered in the south todav as the mormon debator who did so much toward allaying the prejudice against the church throughout that section of the country he was victorious in the encounter with rev haynes a cambelite minister in alabama and travelled eight hundred miles to defeat rev lee jackson before an immense audience in mississippi he became a member of the facility of this institution in 1902 and has been one of its most energetic workers as well as one of its most loyal supporters since that time during the first year he suggested the possibility of a lecture course and was immediately made chairman of a committee of three to work out the details incident to the establishing of a permanent course in the institution the committee has known no other chairman and the success of this great boon to students and the public generally is due principally to his earnest efforts and his never failing faith in the judgment of the weber county public he has been a true friend and staunch supporter of principal mckay and probably no teacher has ever deserved and received more of the love and confidence of principal and students than has this great hearted man in introducing him as the new principal bro mckay said the night was never too dark the way too long or the task too great for brother mckendrick when it was for the good of the school during the six years we have worked together he has never once said no ; more than that he has never quibbled the future of such a man is easily predicted by supporting he has earned the support of teachers and students by being a true friend he has made a host of friends and his future must be a brilliant one a man he is to all of us most dear so kind and thoughtful sympathetic too our hearts respond his slightest word to hear in him we recognize a leader true o may the father who doth bless us all direct him always with the greatest care and may the angels heed his slightest call and answer promptly every earnest prayer