This evening at 8 o'clock Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will compete in their fourth annual triangular debate. Harvard will meet Princeton in Sanders Theatre, Yale will meet Harvard at New Haven, and Princeton will meet Yale at Princeton, the home team in each case upholding the negative. The university returning two winning teams will win the debate. The subject chosen for this year is, "Resolved, That the United States should accept the principle of monopoly control of industry, and regulate prices in all cases where the monopoly has been brought about by the operation of economic laws."
Each member of the University may secure one free ticket by applying at the Co-operative Branch before 6 o'clock. Other tickets may be secured there at 25 cents each by students or the public up to 6 o'clock. After 7 o'clock they will be on sale at Sanders Theatre.
Debate with Princeton in Sanders.
An unusual circumstance makes this year's debate especially interesting, all the regular members of the Harvard teams being undergraduates. In the debate here the University will be represented by C. B. Randall '12, L. A. Mahoney '13, and I. Levin '14, who will speak in the order named, with G. K. Gardner 1L., and F. F. Greenman '14 serving as alternates. The Princeton debaters will be C. H. Cooke '12, P. F. Myers '13, and C. Belknap '12, with G. S. Griggs '13 as alternate. Each speaker will be allowed 12 minutes in which to present his case, and five minutes for his rebuttal. Professor H. A. Yeomans, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, will preside, and the judges have been selected as follows: Mr. S. J. Elder LL.D., a prominent Boston attorney, President R. C. Maclaurin, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President M. L. Burton Ph.D., D.D., of Smith College, Northampton, Mass. While the judges are reaching a decision at the close of the debate, the University Glee Club will sing. Immediately after the debate the University Debating Council will serve refreshments in the Trophy Room of the Union to which both teams, the presiding officer and judges and several guests have been invited.
Harvard vs. Yale in New Haven.
The University team, upholding the affirmative, which will meet. Yale in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, will be composed of J. A. Donovan '13, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13, and M. Suravitz '13, who will speak in the order named, with T. J. Moore 2L., as alternate. For the rebuttal the order will be A. A. Berle, Jr., J. A. Donovan, and M. Suravitz. The Yale debaters will be F. B. Serri '13 L.S., E. M. Porter '13, and F. C. Bangs '13, with F. L. Daily '13 as alternate.
Yale vs. Princeton at Princeton.
At Alexander Hall, Princeton, the Princeton negative team composed of C. F. Tacush '14, E. R. Whittingham '12, and F. E. Mason G.S., with C. E. Bingham '12 as alternate, will meet the Yale affirmative team composed of W. M. Haushalter G.S:, G. C. Stucker '14 L.S., and R. C. Foster '12 D.S., with A. B. Green '13 as alternate.
Harvard Speakers Against Princeton.
Clarence Belden Randall '12, of Cambridge, prepared at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., where he engaged in debating. For Harvard, he debated on his Freshman team against Yale in 1909, served as alternate on the University team in 1910 and 1911. This year he won the Coolidge Debating Prize.
Louis Aloysius Mahoney '13, of Lawrence, prepared at Andover, where he was successful in interclass debating in 1906. He also debated in the Andover-Exeter debate. He was secretary of the University Debating council in 1910 and 1911, and is president of that organization this year.
Isadore Levin '14, of Detroit, Mich., prepared at the Cass High School in Detroit, where he debated on the school team. He was a member of the Freshman debating team which defeated Princeton last year.
George Knowles Gardner 1L., of Worcester, alternate, prepared at the Worcester Classical High School where he was a successful debater. In 1909 he was a member of the Amherst freshman debating team.
Frederick Francis Greenman '14, of Brooklyn, N. Y., alternate, prepared at the Boys' High School there, where he was a member of the debating team. He debated against the Yale freshmen on the 1914 Freshman team last year.
Princeton Team Against Harvard.
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