That interclub debating competition for the third year Law School students has arrived at the final round for the forensic championship of the class, was announced yesterday by Livingston Hall 3L Secretary of the Law School Society.

The Scott club team composed of W. C. Carter 3L and R. K. Chase 3L will meet the Smith club pair. J. W. Avirett 2nd 3L and W. D. Gallagher Jr 3L on January 14 to decide the legalist title. The two teams in the final round are the survivors of a host of 616 prospective lawyers who started debating three years ago.

According to the Harvard Law School system entering classes are divided into approximately 77 debating clubs consisting of eight men each. These clubs at first argue among themselves until they have become proficient in debate and then are divided into two-man teams. These teams enter into competition with the representatives of other clubs, and at the end of the year a reckoning of the percentage of wins and losses is taken with the result that about 23 clubs survive to reach the second year debates.

The eight leading clubs of the second year men meet after the Christmas vacation and pick their two best orators to represent them on the rostrum thereafter.

Debating Clubs Reduced to Four

By the start of the third and final season the number of forensic squads has been reduced to four. This fall, the four clubs to place teams in the semifinals were the Scott, Langdell, Bryce and Smith organizations.

The Scott and Smith finalists will dispute for the championship on Friday evening, January 14, in Langdell Center of the Harvard Law School. A question of suretyship entitled the "Credential Surety Company of Amesburg versus the Fidelity Bonding Company" will he debated in the manner of a regular legal trial. Three justices from federal or state courts will preside at this final trial, and will give the decision.