Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1916 — What the Monticello Journal Has to Say About the Debate. [ARTICLE]

What the Monticello Journal Has to Say About the Debate.

Monticello Journal. The result of the debate here, in which the affirmative side of the question was defended by Messrs. Robert Reeve and Charles Halleck, of the Rensselaer high school and opposed by Misses Ruth Cullen and Vera Dehner of the local high school, was easily forseen long before the judges, Misses Bevan, Higgins and Putnam, teachers in the Loganaport high school, rendered their unanimous verdict in favor of the negative. The young ladies far outclassed their opponents in point of argument, fact and the manner in which they had their subject in hand. They not only excelled in constructive argument, but in the rebuttal, where the real test of debating skill is determined, they displayed decided superiority' over the Rensselaer debaters.