NEGRO DEBATERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 177, 27 June 1938, Page 11

NEGRO DEBATERS.

AMERICANS ARRIVE. i Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 26. Striking examples in themselves of the cultural influences of the famous Le Moyno University, Tennessee, among the negro population of North America, two members of the college debating team, together with their manager, arrived to-day on a tour of the Dominion. The visitors are Professor Boris G. Alexander, prolessor of government and economics, and coach of debate at the college, who is acting as manager, and two graduate students, Messrs James S. • Byas and Charles TV. Gilton. “Debating was once looked upon as a kind ; of ‘sissy’ sport, but there is no longer any such prejudice. It ranks very highly as an extramural y ity, n Professor Alexander said. Ihe work of negro poets has been expressed in many languages, and the artistic ability of the race is well known, vet the ability of the negro to express his mind on economic, social, international, and inter-racial questions' is known onlv to a limited circle, even in our own country. Actually, be Moyne College has established a unique record in inter-sectional and inter-racial debates.” According to Professor Alexander, it is the first time a negro debating team lias toured abroad, and he said the members were keenly interested in meeting New Zealand, university students. Three special subjects liad been prepared ior debate, one of the most interesting being, that continued world pence is impossible, as well as undesirable.