Debating Council Tryouts Thursday

Tryouts for the Harvard Debating Council will be held next Thursday at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room and applications must be handed in to Philip Troen '45 of Lowell House before tomorrow night by all men wishing to enter this competition.

On receiving these applications the Council will mail out topics for the speech. Tradition is being broken in that in place of a formal debate at the tryout, the candidate will make a five-minute speech discussing the assigned topic, pro or con, from the point of view of the first speaker.

Immediate preparation will be for a proposed debate with the Johns Hopkins Debating Club on December 4, with the ultimate goal as the triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate in which the negative teams will do the travelling as in former years.