It is now about ten years since the last Freshman debate with Yale was held--the last of a series of five or six joint debates. They were discontinued then largely because they were not of sufficient merit to justify their existence. The speakers were inadequately coached and did not reflect the Harvard method of debating, but rather that in vogue at their preparatory schools.
Today, however, the Freshman debaters are carefully coached by an experienced University debater, who, without destroying the individuality of the speakers, trains them in the methods of investigation, argument, and presentation, that go to make up the Harvard debating system. And there is no better means of inculcating that system than by the earnest work, which accompanies any contest with Yale. We trust, therefore, that the debate tonight will be the first of a long and continued series of such contests between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen.
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