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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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190 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois academies in Illinois, and of high schools and academies from outside the state. The contests of the three elates are held separately. ORATORY AND DEBATE As in the majority of our educational institutions, forensic activities have never been given the full support of the student body at Illinois. Within the past five years, however, the increasing success of Illinois orators and debaters has created a much more general interest in the various public speaking contests in which students of the University have participated Illinois has been a member of the Northern Oratorical League since 1909, in which it is associated with Michigan, "Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern and Obcrlin. The University participates regularly also in the Annual Peace Oratorical Contest of the State of Illinois, the winner of which competes in an interstate contest with the representatives of the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana* Illinois won first place in the Northern Oratorical League in 1914, and second in 1915. The Illinois representative ranked first in 1916 in the State peace contest, and won second place in the Interstate, Illinois is associated with two groups of state universities in debate. The Mid-West Debating League is composed of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, while Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois constitute the I. M. I. Debating League. The contests conducted by the former organization are held in the spring of each year, the others occurring in December. For the last sixteen years as a whole, Illinois has been rather more successful in oratory than in debate. Illinois won second place in the Interstate Oratorical Contest in 1905 and 1907, her competitors being Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Knox and Chicago. She won first place in the First State Equal Suffrage contest in 1908. She won third place in the Northern Oratorical League in 1911 and 1917; second place in 1910, 1915, 1916, and 1918; and first place in 1914. In the Annual State Peace Contest, Illinois won second place in 1914 and 1917, and first place in H 1915 and 1916,
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