Topics for first forensic:

1. Does the wage fund theory offer any practical assistance to employers and employes in settling wage disputes?

2. Should a national board of arbitration, with compulsory powers, be established to settle all disputes between employers and employees on interstate railroads?

3. Should young writers of today use as models authors of the eighteenth century?

4. Does Kipling continue the line of royal English poets? (See the "Atlantic" for January, 1897.)

5. Did Washington show good generalship at the Battle of Long Island?

6. Ought Congress to prohibit by law the immigration of Anarchists?

7. Ought the $100 clause in the Dingley Tariff Bill to be abolished?

8. Is a large or a small town the more advantageous for the location of a college?

9. Should the recent amendments to the classification rules of the Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association be retained?

10. Is the new system of selecting the football eleven commendable?

11. Should Cuba accept Spain's offer of autonomy?

12. Should the plan adopted by the Society of Architects for the relocation of Copley square be adopted?

13. Should the people of Boston have adopted the Single Chamber Act?

14. Should there be a Sophomore debating club?

15. Should national party lines be observed in municipal politics?

16. Should the city of Boston own and operate the West End Railroad?

17. Should the three mile limit for territorial waters be extended?

18. Should the West End Railroad reduce its fare to three cents?

19. Was Mr. Tracy's candidacy for the best interests of the Republican party in general?

20. Was Great Britain justified in refusing to attend the conference of Russia, Japan, and the United States on the sealing question?