The trial debate last night to choose Harvard's representatives to debate against Yale, started the preparation for this important contest in rather encouraging fashion. As must always be the case, comparatively few of the men who have already spoken on 'Varsity debates tried for places, but the size of the audience showed that the importance of the event was appreciated. Moreover the large number of candidates for intercollegiate honors, and the creditable average ability which they displayed were distinctly gratifying.
The real work will now begin at once, and it is hardly necessary to remind the speakers of the weight of their responsibility. To them is entrusted the task of restoring Harvard's debating supremacy, and if they succeed in doing so they will have done a service which can hardly be overestimated.
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