UNIVERSITY, FRESHMEN SPEAKERS PREPARE FOR SPRING SEASON DEBATES

Five Freshmen will participate in a debate to be held jointly with the Radcliffe Freshman Debating Council on April 18. At an informal meeting at Brooks House yesterday afternoon, representatives of the two groups agreed on the subject, which will be "Resolved, that the Radio is Lowering the Cultural Standard in America". The contest will probably be held at Brooks House, and will be open to the public.

The form which the debate will take was also decided: each of the two teams will consist of two Radcliffe and two Harvard speakers, with an alternate in addition. All the speakers will be allowed a single ten-minute talk, with the exception of the first member of each team, who will speak for five minutes; a five-minute rebuttal will also be included.

The Freshmen who will take part are: F. DeW. Bolman, Jr., V. H. Kramer, J. G. Patterson, Morris Pfaelzer 2d, and C. L. Baumann, Jr. (alternate) W. S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, will direct the debate, which has formerly been held as part of the argumentation classes of English A. Members of the University Debating Council will work with the debaters in preparing their arguments, and two Radcliffe teachers, the Misses McMasters and Ruggles, will also assist the negative and affirmative teams respectively.

The next contest for the first-year men will be the triangular meet, with Yale and Princeton, which is scheduled to be held about May 1. Two Harvard teams will compete, the affirmative staying at Cambridge and the negative travelling to Princeton.