BROWN AND AMHERST ARE FIRST DEBATE OPPONENTS

The first debate of the 1924-1925 University Debating Team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League will be a triangular debate with Amherst and Brown on December 6. The subject of the debate will be: "Resolved, that the formation of a third major political party would advance the cause of representative government in the United States.

Each college will have two teams one supporting the affirmative, the other the negative; and each consisting of three men. One of Harvard's teams will stay in Cambridge, while the other will visit one of the University's opponents. N. E. Himes, 2 8 has been selected to coach the University team. N. E. Himes has not only had a fine record on the University teams of 1920, 1922, 1923, but also he won the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 in 1923, and also the Lee Wade prise and a Boylston prize.

Candidates Report Next Tuesday

Candidates for the debating team will be called out on Tuesday, November 11 There will be a meeting of all interested at 7 o'clock in Harvard Hall.

The Brown-Amherst debate will be the first of four triangular debates to be held under the suspices of the Intercollegiate Debate League.

The usual triangular debate with Yale and Princeton will be included as a league debate, although Princeton is not a member of the league. This has been effected by a special arrangement with Dartmouth whereby Harvard will debate Dartmouth the day following the Princeton debate on the same subject. But with the sides reversed.

The University joined the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League this fail taking the place of Cornell.