11 J , Debate Team To Meet State arsity Today Will Vie In Demonstration Tilt. Before High School Coaches And Debaters 'Michigan's Varsity debaters will open the season at 10 a.m. tday in a demonstratikn contest with Michigan State College in the Rackhm Audi- torium before state high school coaches and debaters. The local squad of William Muehl, '41, and ArthiAr Biggins, '42, will take the negative on this year's con- ference question, " esolved: That the Federal Governnent Should Own and Operate the Railroads." State's eam of Charles Chamberlain and Russell Kirk will take the affirma- tive. The contest will officially open. Michigan high school debaters' sea- i. Elimination contests will start bon for the State Championship fils to be held next May in Hill Auditorium. Winners of the contest sponsored each year by the Extension Service Ehder the direction of Arthur Sec' 6o the speech department, will receive prizes awarded by the Detroit Free Press. A burnished gold lamp of cnowledge surmounting a dark wal iut column has been substituted for the usual cup to be given to the two state high school debate teams which reich the finals. 'The lamp, which emits a glittering flame, rests on a pile of books, thus denoting knowledge. On either side of the column stands a winged figure of achievement, her outstretched arms raising an olive wreath of peace. Two smaller trophies crowned by lamps of learning will be present- ed to the other two teams which reach the semi-finals. John Monteith Was Michigan's First Pesgidet In 1817 (Material for this series has been furnished by Dr. Frank E. Robbins, Assistant to the President.) When the tenth anniversary of President Ruthven's service as head of the University is observed on Oct. 27, the name of John Monteith, a Pi'6destai t preacher of pedagogical fhaings, will be sure to be mentioned. For, although few Michigan men acid women know it, the Rev. Mr. Monteith was Michigan's first presi- dlent. Named President it was on Aug. 26, 1817 that, by ant of the Governor and Judges of the Mliichigan Territory, the Catho- lepistemiad, or University of Michi- gania, came into 'being. And on that dame day Rev. Monteith was selected to be (1) its president and (2) holder of several of its professorial chairs Named as vice-president, as well as the other composite professor, was Father Gabriel Richard, the Rector of 9t. Anne's Romnan Catholic Church in Detroit. k"v. Monteith had come to De- troit' by boat and horseback, at the age of 27, toorganize the First Protes- tant Society. Born of Scotch parents on Aug. 5, 11788 in Gettysburg, Pa., he had attended Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson) and the Presbyterian theological seminary in Princeton, N.J. School'sNName Changed Four years after he became presi- dent another territorial act changed his 'school's name to the University of Michigan and placed its adminis- tration under the control of a board of trustees. Rev. Monteith was made one of the first trustees, but left Michigan to become Professor of An- cient Languages at Hamilton Col- lege. Later he returned to the ministry, moving to Elyria, 0., where he took part in the anti-slavery movement, and then to Blissfield, Mich., as a member of the Home Missionary Service. He died in Elyria on April 5, 1868. These three men, shown in a Scottish hospital, are German fliers who participated in one of the raids on the Firth of Forth but who didn't go back to a hero's welcome. Shot down during the raid, all were wounded. The picture was radioed from London to New York. Alumnus Dies in Plane Crash Hulsman Is Killed Testing High Speed Craft A crash of undetermined cause killed alumnus Herbert W. Hulsman last Saturday at the flight testing field of the Republic Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y. Hulsman was testing a modern high-speed pursuit plane when the crash occurred. He was 32 years old. He was buried Tuesday in Chi- cago, with military honors, naval of- ficers acting as pallbearers. Hulsman was born in Chicago, and received undergraduate training there at Crabe Junior College and Lewis Institute of Technology, from which he received his B.S. degree in me- chianical engineering in 1931. He was a member of Iota Alpha, engineering honor society. He studied in Ann Arbor for his master's degree in 1932 and 1933, but failed in this objective because of one C grade. This failure, according to Prof. Felix W. Pawlow- ski of the engineering school, made a profound impression on him for the rest of his life. He then entered the Navy as a fly- ing cadet, training at Pensacofa, Fla., for one year. His Navy experience later gained him a post as test flyer and research man with the Farmingdale concern. In accepting this position, Profes- sor Pawlowski explained, Hulsman thought that he would vindicate his failure to obtain a master's degree. Professor Pawlowski, who knew Huls- man well while he was on campus, said that the young man's two great ambitions were to become a great flyer and to obtain a master~s degree. Hulsman is the eighth victim of a flying accident among the Umver- sity's aeronautical almuni. Six have perished. in flight-testing work, one died while still training with the Army and another was killed in a collision in the air. Rabinowitz To Speak Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, director of the Hillel Foundation, will give a talk on "Jews in the Line of Fire" at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Foundation during the regular Sunday morning Reform Services, discussing the po- sition of Jews in the European war zone. Syrian Educator To Talk At International Center Prof. Habib Kurani, registrar and a member of the comparative educa- tion department of the American University at Beirut, Syria, will dis- cuss "Some Observations on Com- parative Education" at 7 p.m. tomor- row in the International Center. 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