Advisory Committee on Debating.

At a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Debating held Thursday evening, action was taken on several important matters. The committee sustained the action of last year's committee in prohibiting for the future all Freshman intercollegiate debates. The arrangements which have been made so far by the committee of arrangements on the Princeton debate were ratified.

A report was then read of the action taken by the conference on intercollegiate debating held this summer at New Haven, at which F. Dobyns '98 and F. C. Ringwalt '95, were the Harvard representatives. The following rules for intercollegiate debating were adopted by the conference: In the future the questions for a debate shall be proposed seven weeks before the debate is to occur, and the University choosing the side shall announce its decision five weeks before the same date. The list of judges shall contain not less than twenty names and must be proposed at least six weeks before the debate, and the University to which the list is sent shall return it within a week with the names stricken out to which it objects. No man shall act as judge at any intercollegiate debate who is a graduate of either of the universities participating in the debate. Judges are to be instructed to give their decision upon the merits of the discussion, alone regardless of the relative strength of the two sides of the question. Each of the six speakers shall have twelve minutes for his first speech and five minutes for his rebuttal.

This report was unanimously adopted by the Advisory Committee and the course of the Harvard representatives in opposing the limiting of intercollegiate debates to undergraduates was commended.