DEBATES PREPARE FOR INTER-COLLEGE CONTEST

In preparation for the triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, which is tentatively set for Friday, April 22, candidates met last night in Fairfax Hall to discuss the subject of the debate: "Resolved, That Herbert Hoover should be elected President in 1932."

This debate is the thirty-fifth in the series of annual Harvard-Yale meets and the twenty-first triangular contest. It is on the basis of the showing in the trials for the triangular debate that the T. Jefferson Coolidge Prize of $100 is given. The prize is awarded to the best speaker in the trials, from the income of a gift of T. Jefferson Coolidge '50, who donated it in 1899. To the men who make the team and who speak, gold medals are given, and to the alternates, silver medals. The committee which will make the award is composed of Professor F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, E. M. Rowe '27 and J. M. Swigert '30.

Yale is conducting the debate this year and has chosen the proposition. Harvard will choose two teams, one to take the negative, the other the affirmative. The former will go to Princeton, while the latter will remain in Cambridge to compete against Yale.

For the second time in four years, a political subject was chosen for the debate. In 1928 it was held in Symphony Hall, on the question: "Resolved, That Alfred E. Smith should be elected President in 1928." Harvard won the decision.