By: Ardis E. Parshall - June 10, 2015 For much of the 20th century (into the 1950s, at least; I haven’t yet followed this forward in time) one of the MIA’s (Mutual Improvement Association = youth activities) regular actives was formal debate. Just as baseball might occupy a season in the summer, debate was a winter activity to which the young people would devote a month in addition to their usual classwork. In 1921, that month was De...
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