SET MARCH 23 AS DATE FOR TRIANGULAR DEBATE

This year the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate will be held on Friday, March 23, while the Freshman triangular contest with the same universities will take place on Saturday, May 5.

The subject for the University debate which, will not be announced until February 23, will this year be selected by Yale; the final wording to be arranged by Princeton.

The University, which met Yale last year at New Haven, will debate with their representatives in Cambridge this year, while the University-Princeton debate is to be held at Princeton. Yale will speak against a Princeton team at New Haven.

Several innovations will be put into practice this year, the first relating to the system of rebuttals, which will be omitted, except for a five-minute speech by the first speaker of each side at the conclusion of the debate. This new system of speaking together with the plan for an unofficial decision by the audience, besides the official vote of the judges, is in large measure due to the influence of the Oxford debaters who met the University team in Symphony Hall last fall. The speeches this year will be 15 minutes in length, with the exception of the first of each side, which will be only ten. Each speaker will be allowed to finish his speech with some degree of liberality in the matter of time.

The subject for the Freshman triangular debate to be held May 5 will be announced by the University debating Council on March 31, and will be specifically worded by Princeton. The University Freshmen will meet the Princeton 1926 team in Cambridge, Yale at New Haven, while Princeton will meet Yale at Princeton.