PICK 1927 TRIANGULAR DEBATERS FOR SATURDAY

With the announcement of the men who will represent the University in the Freshman Triangular Debate, plans are practically completed for the Yale 1927-Harvard 1927 contest in Sanders Theatre on Saturday night.

The team which will meet Princeton at Princeton will uphold the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands." This team will consist of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel and D. RK. Barnes, with L. S., King as alternate, and they will speak in the order named.

The team which will debate with Yale at Sanders Theatre upholding the negative side of the question will consist of J. F. Davidson, Otis Frank and D. W. Chapman, with J. W. Cherry and E. F. Wallach as alternates. These speakers also will talk in the order named.

The subject under debate is one of unusual interest at the present time. The Platt amendment was a rider attached to an appropriation bill passed in 1901, providing for the independence of Cuba with certain safeguards, which were principally limitation on the pledging of their resources for debts, and the right to interfere in case of trouble. The question proposes to apply the same provisions to the treatment of the Philippine question.

New Methods of Preparation

The Freshman team this year has been prepared in a radically different manner. Men have been permitted to choose their own sides, and the preparation, instead of being in the form of practice debates before empty halls, has consisted for the most part in table dis- cussions where a complete mastery of the whole subject was the point mostly stressed. The speaking which has been done has been before audiences where the candidates spoke against each other. In every case the speaker has exercised his own choice of subject matter and method of presentation, subject only to the criticism of Coach R. S. Fanning 1L.

Coach Fanning, in commenting on the change said, "We want to get away from the idea of training for a debate. We want to rely more on the making of speakers through such things as the Debating Union, and outside individual talking. It is an idea Dean Greenough expressed in an article seven years ago in which he said that the aim is not to make public speakers but private speakers. This new plan has been adopted after consultation with various debating organizations throughout the University, and will receive its first test Saturday night. It marks a relegation to the background of the old debating brick-bats, and is bound to make the debate more interesting.

The debate with Yale at Sanders Theatre is scheduled to begin at 8.15 o'clock Saturday night. The complete staff of judges has not, yet been announced. There will be no rebuttal speeches in these debates, the first speaker for the affirmative being limited to a five minute speech summarizing the arguments of his side at the conclusion of the final speech by the negative.

Admission will be free to all members of the University