Debating Systems Under Discussion.

An informal meeting of representatives of the debating interest of Harvard, Yale Princeton will be held at New Haven this morning to discuss changes in the debating systems at present in use in the three universities. F. B. Wagner 3L., the Harvard representative, will submit a plan now in use by the triangular league composed of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell, by which all three universities debate upon the same subject on the same date. Each university enters two teams, one of which debates at home, the other away, one team supporting the affirmative of the question under discussion, the other the negative. Under this plan a Harvard affirmative team would meet a Yale negative team at Cambridge, and a Harvard negative team would meet a Princeton affirmative team at Princeton, the Yale affirmative team meeting the Princeton negative team at New Haven, all on the same evening.

Princeton will submit the propositions that briefs be submitted in advance by the contending teams; that teams be coached only by members of the university which they represent, and that only undergraduates shall be eligible to membership on teams.