A Challenge
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Part of Green and White
- Title
- A Challenge
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1930
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- 122 GREEN AND WHITE of preparing them for First Holy Communion. We cannot help wishing that there might be more students of their fine stuff (especially among the Sodality) to help them carry on their charitable apostolate. We have been informed that they are in sore need of assistance, and they have earnestly requested us to make an appeal through the GREEN AND WHITE to see if we could recruit from amongst our school readers at least four new catechists to join hands in this noble and meritorious work of mercy. It does not entail very much labor and bother, we are assured, nor does it occupy much more than one hour a week, on Sundays. It is a labor of love, and the kind souls engaged in it will not go unrewarded. Mr. Anselmo Ferrazzini will be very much pleased to give further particulars to any inquirer. ---«»·--A Challenge Like a bolt from the blue the A.A. Class received some time ago a challenge from the La Salle Chamber of Commerce to a debate upon any subject of the challenged party's choice. It was provided in the note of defiance (for such it seemed) that the dialectic joust should take place not earlier than the 20th of October and not later than December 31st. It also stated that Bro. President had generously promised to award a cup to the winning team. The A.A. Class, after some hesitation, decided to take up the gauntlet. By the time this leaves the press, arrangements will have been completed between the two College departments which have-with considerable reason-been long ·regarded as rivals. Had an invitation to a handball, tennis, or basket-ball match been jssued, no unusual rumpus would have been stirred up. But a challenge to a debate is something new. It is a good sign. It shows that our students of Commerce have not narrowed down their interests to things purely commercial to the exclusion of "irrelevant and impractical subjects." It is very grateful to us to learn that Debating, the joy of the High School student, still holds out attractions for La Salle's Commercialites. An especial benefit to be derived from inter-class contests of this kind, in which more or less practised orators and debaters take part, is the renewed interest in Debating that is bound to arise among the nevv·er members of the La Salle Debating Club, upon whose constant encouragement and training, and ultimate success will depend in great measure the recovery of that tremendous power and prestige enjoyed by the La Salle Debating Club in those years when sneakers of the caliber of de Vera, Gibbs, Ortigas, Ugarte, Araneta, and Heredia fortified her ranks. Any effort made in this direction deserves unstinted commendation. It is our hope that the A.A.-Commerce debate will come off as well as it gives fair promise to, and that there will be more frequent encounters of similar nature in the future. We look forward, also, to witnessing a controversial clash between the La Salle Chamber of Commerce, and the Senior Debating Club.