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HARVARD-PRINCETON DEBATE

IN SANDERS THEATRE THIS EVENING--HARVARD VS. YALE IN NEW HAVEN.

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This evening at 8 o'clock Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will compete in their fourth annual triangular debate. Harvard will meet Princeton in Sanders Theatre, Yale will meet Harvard at New Haven, and Princeton will meet Yale at Princeton, the home team in each case upholding the negative. The university returning two winning teams will win the debate. The subject chosen for this year is, "Resolved, That the United States should accept the principle of monopoly control of industry, and regulate prices in all cases where the monopoly has been brought about by the operation of economic laws."

Each member of the University may secure one free ticket by applying at the Co-operative Branch before 6 o'clock. Other tickets may be secured there at 25 cents each by students or the public up to 6 o'clock. After 7 o'clock they will be on sale at Sanders Theatre.

Debate with Princeton in Sanders.

An unusual circumstance makes this year's debate especially interesting, all the regular members of the Harvard teams being undergraduates. In the debate here the University will be represented by C. B. Randall '12, L. A. Mahoney '13, and I. Levin '14, who will speak in the order named, with G. K. Gardner 1L., and F. F. Greenman '14 serving as alternates. The Princeton debaters will be C. H. Cooke '12, P. F. Myers '13, and C. Belknap '12, with G. S. Griggs '13 as alternate. Each speaker will be allowed 12 minutes in which to present his case, and five minutes for his rebuttal. Professor H. A. Yeomans, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, will preside, and the judges have been selected as follows: Mr. S. J. Elder LL.D., a prominent Boston attorney, President R. C. Maclaurin, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President M. L. Burton Ph.D., D.D., of Smith College, Northampton, Mass. While the judges are reaching a decision at the close of the debate, the University Glee Club will sing. Immediately after the debate the University Debating Council will serve refreshments in the Trophy Room of the Union to which both teams, the presiding officer and judges and several guests have been invited.

Harvard vs. Yale in New Haven.

The University team, upholding the affirmative, which will meet. Yale in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, will be composed of J. A. Donovan '13, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13, and M. Suravitz '13, who will speak in the order named, with T. J. Moore 2L., as alternate. For the rebuttal the order will be A. A. Berle, Jr., J. A. Donovan, and M. Suravitz. The Yale debaters will be F. B. Serri '13 L.S., E. M. Porter '13, and F. C. Bangs '13, with F. L. Daily '13 as alternate.

Yale vs. Princeton at Princeton.

At Alexander Hall, Princeton, the Princeton negative team composed of C. F. Tacush '14, E. R. Whittingham '12, and F. E. Mason G.S., with C. E. Bingham '12 as alternate, will meet the Yale affirmative team composed of W. M. Haushalter G.S:, G. C. Stucker '14 L.S., and R. C. Foster '12 D.S., with A. B. Green '13 as alternate.

Harvard Speakers Against Princeton.

Clarence Belden Randall '12, of Cambridge, prepared at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., where he engaged in debating. For Harvard, he debated on his Freshman team against Yale in 1909, served as alternate on the University team in 1910 and 1911. This year he won the Coolidge Debating Prize.

Louis Aloysius Mahoney '13, of Lawrence, prepared at Andover, where he was successful in interclass debating in 1906. He also debated in the Andover-Exeter debate. He was secretary of the University Debating council in 1910 and 1911, and is president of that organization this year.

Isadore Levin '14, of Detroit, Mich., prepared at the Cass High School in Detroit, where he debated on the school team. He was a member of the Freshman debating team which defeated Princeton last year.

George Knowles Gardner 1L., of Worcester, alternate, prepared at the Worcester Classical High School where he was a successful debater. In 1909 he was a member of the Amherst freshman debating team.

Frederick Francis Greenman '14, of Brooklyn, N. Y., alternate, prepared at the Boys' High School there, where he was a member of the debating team. He debated against the Yale freshmen on the 1914 Freshman team last year.

Princeton Team Against Harvard.

Paul Forest Myers '13, of Dillsburg, Pa., prepared at Perkiomen Seminary, where he debated on his freshman team and won the Class of 1876 Prize Debate in 1912.

Chauncey Belknap '12, of Morristown, N. J., prepared at the High School of Commerce, New York. He was a member of the Princeton freshman debating team in 1909, and the university teams of 1910 and 1911. He was also the winner of the Trask Prize in 1910.

Claude Hanbury Cooke '12, of St. Louis, Mo., prepared at Oxford. He was the alternate on the 1910 university team and the 1911 winner of the Junior Oratorical Contest. Last year he won the French Medal Debate and this year the Trask Prize.

Gilbert Snowden Griggs '13, of Somerville, N. J., alternate, prepared at Perkiomen Seminary.

Speakers Against Yale.

James Augustine Donovan '13, of Lawrence, prepared at the Lawrence High School, where he was class orator, founded the school debating society, and was captain of the debating team. He was also a member of the Lawrence Y. M. C. A. debating team. He is assistant manager of the University debating team.

Adolph Augustus Berle, Jr., '13, of Cambridge, prepared at the Brookline High School. For Harvard, he served on the 1913 Freshman debating team which won from Yale 1913 at New Haven. He participated in the Pasteur Medal Debate finals in 1910 and 1911.

Maurice Suravitz '13, of Scranton, Pa., prepared at the Scranton Central High School, where he was class orator, and won an oratorical medal. He was winner of the Pasteur Medal Debate in 1910, and was a member of the University team which defeated Yale last year.

Thomas Justin Moore 2L., of Mount Lebanon, La., alternate, prepared at the Mount Lebanon Academy. He graduated from Richmond College, Richmond, Va., in 1908, having won the Best Reader's Medal in his final year.

Yale Debaters Against Harvard.

Fidardo Reuben Serri '13 L.S., of Proctor, Vt., prepared at the Proctor High School. At Yale he won the Thatcher prize in 1910 and 1911, and has been on the university team for two years. In 1911 he was president of the Debating Association.

Edward Maurice Porter '13, of Springfield, Mass., prepared at the Springfield High School. He represented the Yale freshmen against the Harvard Freshmen in 1910, and was a member of last year's team against Harvard. He recently won the Ten Eyck Prize.

Frederick Curtis Bangs '13, of Groton, N. Y., was alternate on last year's teams against Syracuse and Harvard.

Francis Leo Daily '13, of Peoria, Ill., is the alternate.J. A. Donovan '13. M. Suiavitz '13. T. J. Moore 2L. A. A. Berle, Jr., '13. UNIVERSITY DEBATING TEAM AGAINST YALE.

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