1. Should Boston adopt a system of underground or of elevated transit?

2. Should the apportionment amendment offered by the Constitutional Convention be adopted?

3. Should Japan be given equal treaty rights with the great nations?

4. Was Mr. Pullman right in refusing to submit to arbitration the demands of his employees?

5. Has the present Democratic administration upheld the principles of Civil Service Reform?

6. Is the proposed federation of England and her dependencies practicable?

7. Has Lord Roseberry maintained the policy of the Gladstone administration?

8. Is Lessing a critic or a poet?

9. Should the Strauss or the Strong ticket be elected in New York City.

10. Are the laws for the punishment of railway robbery adequate?

11. Will the new rules in football improve the game?

12. Is the revival of business due to the passage of the Tariff Bill?

13. Was the destruction of the Byron Memoirs justifiable?

14. Was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, responsible for the death of his wife, Amy Robsart?

15. Is the utilitarian theory of morals defensible?

16. Is realism in literature a symptom of decadence?

17. Is Taine's view of the French Revolution correct?

18. Was the revocation of the Edict of Nantes justifiable from a political point of view?

19. Was Aeschines innocent of the charges brought against him by Demosthenes in the peace of Philocrates?

20. Can any unity of principle be found in the earlier and the later political positions of Horace?

21. Is Macaulay's condemnation of Montesquieu in his essay on Macchiavelli justifiable?

22. Did the Senate amendments improve the Tariff Bill?

The brief for the first forensic will be due Nov. 8, and will be returned Nov. 17. It must be rewritten and left, with the first forensic, in the box in Sever 10 by 5 p. m., Nov. 24. Students are urged to find topics for forensics in work connected with courses they are now taking or have recently taken. Suitable topics will be approved, if submitted to an instructor at a consultation hour.