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FRESHMAN DEBATE.

It Will Held Tonight at Eight in the Fogg Art Museum.

This evening the Harvard Freshmen will meet those of Yale for a second time in joint debate. The first debate between the two Freshman classes was held last year at New Haven and resulted in a victory for Yale. This fact, together with the outcome of this year's 'Varsity debate, gives to the event of tonight a special interest.

The debate will be held in the Fogg Art Museum and will begin at eight o'clock. Professor Baker is to preside and the judges are to be Professor J. Wesley Churchill, of Andover, President Capen of Tufts, and Mr. Henry Clapp, of Boston.

A limited number of tickets are still left which will be put on sale today at Thurston's and after 7.15 p. m. at the door of the Fogg Art Museum.

After the debate, a dinner will be given at the Colonial Club to the Yale speakers.

W. H. Conroy, who will open the debate for Harvard, is from Philadelphia, where he graduated from the Central High School as valedictorian of his class. He is studying Government and History and expects to enter the Law School. He was recently elected a member of the Forum. Conroy is a very earnest speaker and holds the attention of his audience remarkably well.

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Philip G. Carleton, the second Harvard speaker, comes from Lawrence, Mass. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Andover, where he did considerable speaking, both in debating and in other ways. He was one of the speakers in the annual joint debate of last year between the Forum and the Philomathean Debating Club of Andover, and also on the Means Prize Contest and the Draper Prize Contest. He is now president of the Harvard Freshman Debating Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Forum.

William Morse, the last speaker for Harvard, is from Philadelphia. He graduated from the Central High School in '94 as Valedictorian of his class and last year he attended the University of Pennsylvania. At Pennsylvania Morse was one of the editors of the "Ben Franklin" and a member of the Philomathean Society and the Franklin Debating Union, being one of the winning team of the former in annual debate with the Zelosophic Society. He is now a member of the Forum.

Frank O. White, the alternate, graduated last year from the Boston Latin School, receiving a Franklin Medal for scholarship. He has never given any attention to debating until this year, but he is now a member of the Harvard Union.

THE YALE SPEAKERS.The Yale speakers for the Freshman debate this evening are E. T. Noble, J. K. Clark, C. L. Darlington and George D. Graves, alternate.

Edward Theodore Noble who will speak first for Yale comes from Wichita, Kansas. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, where he was a member of the Forum Debating Society. He was president of the Yale Freshman Union during the first part of the year, and has recently been elected by his class as Fence Orator for the freshmen.

John K. Clark of Brooklyn, is the second Yale speaker. He comes from Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School where he was president of the Literary Society. He is a brother of C. U. Clark '97, of Yale, who was in the Yale-Princeton debate of last fall. Clark will give the five minute rebuttal for Yale.

Charles L. Darlington, the last speaker for Yale, is from Xenia, Ohio. He prepared at the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was an active member of the debating club. He is now president of the Yale Freshman Union. Darlington is especially good at summing up.

George D. Graves, the Yale alternate comes from Manchester, N. H. He received his preparation at Colby Academy, New London, N. H., where he was president of the Philomathean Debating Society. He is the only member of the Yale team who does not belong to the Freshman Union.

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