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The seventh annual intercollegiate debate under the triangular system will take place this evening at 8 o'clock. The University will meet Yale in Sanders Theatre and Princeton at Princeton, while Princeton will meet Yale at New Haven. In each case the negative team will debate at home. Tickets for the debate here may be obtained at Amee Brothers, Co-operative Branch. Memorial Hall, or at the door this evening. Seats on the main floor are 50 and 75 cents each and those in the balcony are 25 cents each.
The university winning the decision in two of the simultaneous debates will be awarded the championship. So far Harvard has had the best record in the number of contests won, having secured the championship three times. Last year the result was a tie, each negative team winning over the opposing affirmative team. The debate tonight will be the twenty-fourth annual contest with Yale and the twentieth with Princeton.
The subject of the triangular debate tonight is "Resolved, That the best interests of the United States demand a prompt and substantial increase in its army and navy."
The University negative team which will meet Yale in Sanders Theatre is composed of one Sophomore, one Junior, and one Senior. Unlike previous teams there is not a graduate representative. The members of the University team in the order of their speeches are: R. W. Chubb '15, A. G. Paine '17 and H. Epstein '16, with P. P. Cohen '16 as alternate. The order of rebuttal will be Paine, Epstein, Chubb. Epstein is the only man who has been on a University team before. He was alternate on the affirmative team against Yale last year. Chubb and Paine were both members of their Freshman teams.
The Yale team is composed of E. C. Jerome '15, M. Hadley '16, and P. O. Badger, with J. F. Collins '15, Law, as alternate.
Gov. Walsh to Preside.
Each speaker will be allowed 12 minutes for his main speech and 5 minutes for rebuttal, with warnings at the end of 10 minutes for speeches and 4 minutes for rebuttal. Governor David I. Walsh will preside, and the judges who will render the decision are: Marion LeRoy Burton, President of Smith College; G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University; Homer Albers, Dean of Boston University Law School.
The following students have been chosen as ushers for the debate: C. E. Brickley '15, head usher, H. Francke '15, A. Fisher '15, R. Harte '17, O. G. Kirkpatrick '17, H. A. Murray, Jr., '15, and W. H. Trumbull '15.
Judge A. P. Stone '93 will be host to the University team at the Harvard Club of Boston before the debate, while Dean Albers will entertain the judges. The Yale team will arrive this morning and make their headquarters at the Hotel Touraine.
Dinner at Speakers' Club.
Immediately after the debate, the University Debating Council will give a dinner at the Speakers' Club: Invitations have been extended to the members of both teams, the presiding officer, the judges, and a number of former University debaters. Judge A. P. Stone '93 will act as toastmaster, and short, informal speeches will be made by several of the guests.
The University affirmative team composed of one Senior and two Juniors, left for New York yesterday afternoon and will arrive in Princeton this afternoon. The team was accompanied by Manager R. J. White '15, Coach R. T. Parke '98, and S. Curtis '05. The members of the team in the order of their speeches are: E. R. Roberts '15, J. W. Cooke '16, and P. L. Sayre '16. In the rebuttal the order will
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