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PRELIMINARY TRIALS TONIGHT

Candidates for University Debating Team Meet in Harvard 6.

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Preliminary trials for the University debating team will be held this evening in Harvard 6 at 7 o'clock. At that time candidates who are going to compete for positions on the team will speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved: That, except in so far as it is necessary to conceal military and naval secrets, the United States Government should take no measures to prevent the publication or circulation of any paper." The judges selected for the trials are Judge A. P. Stone '93, H. Epstein '16 and F. M. Rarig 1G.

After the speeches have been delivered tonight, 12 men will be retained to compete in the final trials to be held next Monday. At the conclusion of the final tryouts, six debaters and three alternates will be selected to represent the University in the annual Harvard Yale-Princeton contest. This triangular debate is scheduled for March 22.

Addditional candidates for the managership of the 1918-19 team are to report to R. S. Tucker '18, in Holworthy 20, today or tomorrow at 5 P. M. This is the second call for managerial candidates. To date only two men are in the competition.

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