Debating Council Starts Trials for Varsity Nucleus

Trials to determine membership on the Varsity Debating Council will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. Candidates who deliver acceptable three-to-five minute speeches will participate in the intercollegiate debating contests this fall and winter.

Men trying out may take the negative or affirmative side of one of three subjects: Resolved, That Neville Chamberlain has brought 'peace with honor' for our time; or That this House favors the adoption of the Government Reorganization Bill of President Roosevelt; or That Republicanism, not the New Deal, represents true Liberalism in 1938.

In order to allow the new Inter-House debating plans to function without competition, the Varsity debates are all scheduled away from home this semester. Two series of eight debates each have been arranged for radio broadcasts, the first of which will be called the "Harvard Forum of the Air."

Other radio projects include an October 21 contest with Brown, Radcliffe on October 28, Dartmouth November 4, a nation-wide broadcast on Armistice Day with Wellesley or Chicago, Williams November 18, Vermont or Wellesley November 25, Middlebury December 2, and Amherst December 9.

Yale speakers will compete against the Crimson on October 31 in the Public Library auditorium, while trips to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk; Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Yale, Amherst, McGill are planned. No one will be allowed to participate in the spring H-Y-P Coolidge Prize trials unless he has tried out in the October or February Council trials. Membership will be restricted to 20 members this year.