Sever 11 should be crowded this afternoon when the meeting is held in which Harvard expresses her confidence in the Princeton debaters and her good wishes for their success. For the whole University does most earnestly wish them a decisive victory.
The day is past when intercollegiate debates are looked upon as contests of only secondary importance. Victory in them is coming more and more to be considered as of even more importance to the real and lasting reputation and welfare of the University than athletic victories.
The debaters themselves realize, perhaps as fully as any one, the responsibility which this growing importance of the debates brings to their positions and have worked hard and unceasingly in preparation for Friday's contest. They should not only be assured this afternoon that they have our best wishes for success, but should receive also our thanks for their untiring efforts to bring Harvard renewed success in debating.
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