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1927 TRIANGULAR DEBATE SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT

NEGATIVE SIDE WILL BE UPHELD AT SANDERS

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Tonight at 8.15, the Freshmen will debate with Yale 1927 on the negative side of the question "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands."

At the same time, another Freshman team will be debating with Princeton 1927 on the affirmative side of the same question.

The subject under debate is the proposal to apply to the Philippine Islands the same treatment the United States gave to Cuba in granting her independence in 1901.

The team upholding the affirmative, consisting of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel, and D. R. K. Barnes, with L. S. King as alternate.

The judges for the debate at Sanders Theatre will be Mr. William Bailie, Mr. Gleason Leonard Archer, Dean of the Suffolk Law School, and Mr. James Giblin.

The team that will oppose Yale in Sanders Theatre is composed of J. F. Davidson, Otis Frank, and D. W. Chapman, with J. W. Cherry and E. F. Wallach as alternates, who will speak in the order named.

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