1921 DEBATING TRIALS TUESDAY

The University Debating Council has decided to hold trials for the 1921 team on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of next week, on the subject: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of compulsory military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question. All the trials will take place in Harvard 6 at 7.45 o'clock, men having Military Science lectures being permitted to come late. The team will be finally picked on Friday, April 12, from men who are retained after these preliminaries.

The advance in the date of the trials was made by the Council because it would be impractical to hold the trials after the April vacation if Yale should advance the date of the Freshman triangular contest to May 10.

Prosser Awarded Coolidge Prize.

William Lloyd Prosser '18, of Washington, D. C., has been awarded the Coolidge Prize of $100, which is given annually to the best speaker in the system of trial debates which are held before the triangular contest between the University, Yale and Princeton, which took place on March 22 this year. Prosser has been a member of the University debating team for the last two years. Both years he was judged the best speaker in the contest in Sanders Theatre; against Yale in 1917, and Princeton in 1918. He was also a member of his Freshman team.

An additional income from the money set aside for the Coolidge Prize, which was founded in 1911, is used in awarding gold medals to all the members of the University debating team.