YALE DEBATE.

The annual Harvard-Yale debate comes off at New Haven tonight. Yale has been making extraordinary efforts this year to win and the contest is expected to be very close. Harvard has the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That a permanent court of arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain."

The Harvard representatives, F. R. Steward '96, A. M. Sayre '98, and W. B. Parker '97, were somewhat delayed in their work: First, owing to a caange in the method of choosing the men, and second, on account of Sayre's illness. They are nevertheless thoroughly prepared to debate the question in a way to reflect credit upon themselves and Harvard.

They leave for New Haven this morning on the Shore line on the 10 o'clock express. Accompanying them will be W. S. Youngman, L. S., who was on this year's Princeton debate; Wirt Howe '96 and Charles Grilk '98, alternates on tonight's debate; Professor G. P. Baker, Professor A. S. Hill, and several of the men who have entered in the Yale track games, which will be held in New Haven tomorrow. At the debate tonight, Hon. E. J. Phelps will preside.

The judges will be Elihu Root, Albert H. Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, and Walter H. Page, of the Atlantic Monthly.

After the debate there will be a banquet at the New Haven House, at which Thomas Thacher, Yale '71, President of the New York Yale Alumni Association, will act as toastmaster.