Intercollegiate Debate.

As has been already announced, the competitive debate to choose Harvard's three representatives for the debate of January 19, against Yale, will be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 p. m., on Tuesday next, December 12. Harvard has the negative of the question, "Resolved, that independent action in politics is preferable to party allegiance."

On Tuesday each speaker will be limited to five minutes. Any member of the University may present himself as a candidate. Speakers are not necessarily limited to the negative of the question. The best three speakers will be selected by a committee made up of Dean Briggs, Assistant Professor Williston, and Mr. Hayes. It cannot be too strongly expressed that this is for an intercollegiate affair, which involves the reputation of the whole University.

Early in the week two members of the Wendell Phillips Club, A. S. Apsey and F. C. Thwaits, the latter of whom took the place of P. G. Parsons, met two from the Yale Union in debate at Newport, on the invitation and under the auspices of the Unity Club. The question debated was: "Resolved, that United States Senators should be elected by the direct vote of the people." The Yale speakers were L. A. Welles, who was last year president of the Yale Union, and W. E. Thoms, who has represented Yale on the regular Harvard-Yale debates. This was in no sense a competitive debate between the two universities. These two members of the Wendell Phillips Club were invited to speak, and the club voted to recognize them as representatives. Further than that, they did not represent the University. Lack of space has prevented any earlier report of this debate.