MR. PEDDIE'S SECOND SPEECH.To close the debate, a five minute speech was allowed to one man on each side. Mr. Peddie spoke for Yale. He said that, eloquence to one side, the whole question resolved itself into one of motive and did not touch the necessity of party existence. Harvard claimed that men should act because led by party feeling. Yale claimed that men should act because led by reason and conscience.

MR. HAYES'S SECOND SPEECH.Harvard's five minutes for rebuttal were taken up by Mr. Hayes. He agreed with Yale that the whole question was one of motive, but maintained that while it is not right to follow a party blindly, it is equally wrong to follow the dictates of conscience outside of party. The proper course for a man is to belong to a party, and to make the party to which he belongs conform to his principles.

THE DECISION.The judges, Professor Edmund J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, Hon. Carl Schurz, and Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consulted for about five minutes and then Professor James announced the decision. He said that the excellence of the speaking on both sides had rendered the task of the judges a peculiarly difficult one, but that they had finally agreed that if a marking were to be made on a scale of 100, Yale deserved 99 and Harvard 100.

DINNER AT THE COLONIAL CLUB.After the debate there was an informal dinner at the Colonial Club. It was attended by Col. Higginson, Professor James, Gen. Walker, Professors Taussig, Briggs, and Cummings, Mr. J. J. Hayes, the six speakers, Mr. H. Leete, President of the Yale Union, F. C. McLaughlin '93, H. C. Lakin '94, A. P. Stone L. S., E. H. Warren '95, all of whom are former speakers in debates with Yale, F. C. Thwaits, L. S., as president of the Wendell Phillips Club; C. Vrooman, Sp., president of the New Harvard Union, H.

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