CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18100, 16 June 1924, Page 6

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

OPEN SPEAKING COMPETITION. The annual open speaking, competi-. tlon of the Canterbury College Dialectic Society "was held on "Saturday night, Professor J. Shelley presiding. The subject of the'competition was "A descriptive account of what, in the speaker's opinion,' constitutes the most dramatic event in history, religious events excluded." The following gave addresses: —Mr J. Struthers (Meeting of Garibaldi and Victor Immanuel), Mr "Wilson : (Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots); Mr H. E. Field (The Indian Mutiny), Mr W. W. Brassington {Joan of Arc), and Mr A. Li Haslam (The Fall of the Bastille, 1789). The judge, Mr 0. T. J. Alpers, who was secretary of the Society 40 years ago, and has Binco held the offices of president and honorary president, placed the speakers: Mr A. L. Haslam 1, Mr W. W. Brassington 2, Mr J. Struthers 3. In giving-a'helpful criticism, the judge 'said that' the standard of the speeches was higher than that of his own day. In the choice of subjects, Mr Wilson's was the best. Mr Haslam's speech was undoubtedly tne best, as. ho centred the thoughts of the audience upon one particular scene, and his de- ; livery and mode of speech were very fine. - ■ ■■'-,■■