QUESTION FOR 1910 DEBATE

The committee appointed by the University Debating Council to choose the question for the Harvard-Yale Freshman debate, to be held in Cambridge on Friday, April 26, sent the following question to Yale last night. "Resolved, That if constitutional, United States shipping engaged in South American trade should be subsidized. The Yale freshmen will have the choice of sides.

The trials for the Freshman team will be open to all members of the Freshman class. The first trial, which will be held in Dane Hall next Tuesday, will consist of five-minute speeches on either side of the question for debate. On the basis of these speeches about 14 men will be retained for the second trial on next Friday. At this trial each of the men retained will deliver a 10-minute speech on the subject, and six men will be chosen to take part in the final trial debate on Tuesday, March 26, when they will be divided into the first and second teams.

G. J. Hirsch '07 will coach the Freshman team. He was a member of the University team that debated against Princeton last year, when he won the Coolidge Prize; and he was also a member of the University team that defeated Yale last Fall.

All Freshmen who intend to try for the team should send their names before next Tuesday to S. Spring, Perkins 11. Books on the subject of the debate will be placed on the shelves of the Debating Library in Dane Hall, and magazines relating to it will be reserved in the Gore Hall Reading Room.