never before has debating held such a prominent place among our student body activities it is practically a new institution but the enthusiasm that it has created among the students shows that it is fast finding favor much interest was centered about the inter class debates the different classes anxious to win the silver lo cup put out strong teams and when these teams met one could not well determine who was winning or who had won until the judge had rendered their decision this interest displayed by the various classes did much to elevate the new phase in our school life and mad possible the selection of a strong team to represent the academy i the state high school debating league our first debate was on march 18 when we met a team from tin collegiate institute of salt lake city the question was resolved that the tariff should be imposed for revenue only the academy team composed of william critchlow alma wilson lawrence richards and peter kasius alternate representing the affirmative and the collegiate team representing the negative it was a splendid contest in every way being characterized by good speeches and well statd arguments but our team more than held their own with the visitors and at the end of the contest received an unanimous decision of the judges the judges were judge william mccarthy professor a blaine roberts of the university of utah and attorney george davis the victory over the collegiate institute pitted the academy team against the strong team of the park city high school in the semi-finals slightly handicapped because of the short time to pre pare and changing the side of the question they journeyed down to park city and before a packed house in the orpheum theater went down to defeat by a decision of two to one in this debate the academy was represented by lawrence greenwell william critch low and lawrence richards the judges were professors a blaine