The annual Harvard-Yale debate will take place tonight in New Haven. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the United States should annex the Hawaiian Islands." Harvard will support the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and also five minutes for a rebuttal speech.
The Harvard men will speak first in the following order: W. Morse 1900, J. A. Keith 1901, C. Grilk '98. In the rebuttal speeches the order will be: Keith, Morse, Grilk. For Yale the probable order will be: H. A. Jump '99 Divinity, J. K. Clark '99, H. W. Fisher '98. In rebuttal; Clark, Fisher, Jump.
The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew will preside. The judges have been selected as follows: Professor Nicholas B. Murray of Columbia, Justice Wm. B. Hornblower, and Hon. J. J. McCook of New York. The Harvard debaters will leave by the 10 o'clock train this morning.
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