The Yale debate is now but a few days off, and the men chosen to represent Harvard have almost completed their long and careful preparation for the contest. On this occasion, as in former years, the three speakers have been greatly helped in their work by the alternate, who has not only studied the question with them, but has also spent considerable time in speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction to have the alternates for both universities occupy seats on the platform on the evening of the debate.
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