F. W. Dallinger '93 will preside at the trial debate to choose Harvard's speakers for the joint debate with Princeton. Professors Hart, Cummings, Williston, Mr. J. J. Hayes and Mr. G. P. Baker have been asked to act as judges. The debate will be held February 15 in Sever 11, and is open to all students, to those who have spoken in former intercollegiate debates, as well as those who have not. As before published, Harvard will have the negative of the question, "Resolved, That, if it were possible, a reasonable property qualification for the exercise of the municipal franchise in the United States would be desirable."

The following list of authorities, useful for the preliminary debate to select speakers for the debate with Princeton, has been prepared by an instructor. Most of the books are reserved under Government or Colonial History or United States History.

General Conditions of the Suffrage:

Bishop, History of the Suffrage in the Colonies; J. J. Lalor's Cyclopaedia III, 811, 824-829; Howard, Local Constitutional History, I, 62; A. B. Hart, Practical Essays, No. 2; H. C. Lodge, English Colonies in North America, 231, 283, 345, 361, 385-390; Woolsey, Political Science, I, 299-303, II, 111-113; Wharton's Commentaries, S S 396, 592; T. M. Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, 752-756; Story's Commentaries, S S 577-586; F. J. Stimson's American Statute Law. S S 20-23, 240-249; Bateman, Political and Constitutional Law, S S 96-100, 163; Pomeroy, Constitutional Law, S S 207-209, 256; John Stuart Mill, Representative Government.

Property Qualifications in General:

Hitchcock, American State Constitutions, 27-28; Niles Register, XIX, 115 (1820); State Constitutions, especially of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, in Poore's Charters and Constitutions; Debates of the Massachusetts State Convention of 1820 (very important); Francis Lieber, Political Ethics.

Property Qualifications in City Government:

Lalor's Cyclopaedia, I, 466; Bryce, American Commonwealth (1st ed.), I, 615, 625; Fiske, Civil Government, 133; A. P. Wilder, Municipal Problem (with references); General References in English 6, Briefs in the CRIMSON for Dec. 2, 1890, and Nov. 17, 1891; Bibliography of Municipal Government in the proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government, 1894. (Note especially the status of Philadelphia in Allinson and Penrase's Philadelphia, (Johns Hopkins Studies, Extra Volume III) and Bryce, American Commonwealth (3d ed.), II, ch 89); F. H. Hodder, Brief Bibliography of Municipal Government.