Plans for Hyde Debate

The challenge cup, which Mr. J. H. Hyde '98 has offered for a debate in French between the University and Yale will be competed for this year for the first time. The debate will be held in Sanders Theatre sometime in the first week in March, although no exact date has yet been fixed. The subject has not yet been definitely decided on, but will be on some phase of the present church crisis in France. According to the conditions of the debate the names of the winning team will be engraved on the cup each year, and the cup will remain in the possession of that team for the ensuing year. Monsieur J. Jusserand, who has been French ambassador to the United States since 1902, has been invited by the Cercle Francais to preside at the debate.

The French society at Yale has already made up the team which will debate, and especial interest has been shown because of the fact that the project of a Harvard-Yale debate in French has long been discussed. As yet only a provisional team of two men has been chosen by the Cercle Francais, consisting of C. D. L. Phelps '07 and H. von Kaltenborn sC., but a third member of the team cannot be satisfactorily found. M. L. Allard of the Ecole Normale, instructor in French, will coach the team. Any men who can speak French and have ability in debating are requested to hand in their names to F. de R. Storey, Walter Hastings 35, or C. Cobb, Russell 11