Freshman Debating Club.

The Freshman Debating Club has begun its second half year with renewed interest and increased attendance at debates. The club now numbers over seventy members a large number of whom take an active part in the discussions.

Now that the time is approaching for the joint debate with the Yale Freshman Uion, plans are beign considered which, it is expected will bring out the best material of the club. According to the advice of the advisory committee on debating, the club has decided to inaugurate the following plan: One or more members of the Union or the Forum will be present at each weekly debate to criticise the debate and to select the two best speakers of the evening. This will be done three weeks in succession, but at the fourth meeting the six speakers already selected will debate. Special debates will probably be held with the Union and with the Forum, in order to give the freshmen additional practice in public speaking.

The members realize that they must do their utmost in preparing for the coming contest, since the Yale freshmen now have the prestige of the victory of last year, and since it is probable that the freshmen of Harvard and Yale will not meet again in a joint debate. At Yale the competition for places on the team is open to all freshmen. The Harvard Freshman Debating Club has not, as yet, decided to extend the competition to any but members, but all members of ninety-nine interested in debating are urged to join before the selection of speakers.

The regular weekly debate of the Freshman Debating Club will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in University on the question "Resolved, That the attitude of the government on the Venezuelan question is to be commended." The principal disputants will be, for the affirmative, C. H. Pond and E. Lissner; for the negative, W. H. Conroy and M. Hyman.