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PASTEUR DEBATE TRIALS START

JUSTIFICATION OF FRENCH MOROCCAN POLICY SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION.

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The first trials of the annual debate for the Pasteur Medal will be held in Sever 11 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Candidates should come prepared to speak five minutes on either side of the subject, "Resolved, That the policy of the French in Morocco during the present century has made due allowance for the rights of other European nations." All undergraduates, including unclassified and out-of-course students, are eligible to compete. A. A. Berle '13, coach of the University debating team, and L. D. Stillwell 3G, Assistant in History, will act as judges.

The final debate will be held on Thursday, May 18. Men will be permitted to speak for fifteen minutes. At the final contest members of the French Department will act as judges.

This prize was founded in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Conbertin, in the form of a medal "to be awarded to the successful contestant in an annual debate; off a subject drawn from contemporary French politics."

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