Tonight at 8 o'clock the University debating team meets Bates College in an exhibition argument at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. This contest is the first exhibition debate ever attempted at any preparatory school. It is also the first exhibition debate attempted by Harvard. It has been brought about through the efforts of Mr. A. A. Gleason '86, of Boston, and by several Exeter masters, who are anxious to stimulate an interest in forensic speaking among the students of Exeter Academy.

The question to be debated is: "Resolved: That there is more to be feared than hoped for from science." Harvard will uphold the affirmative side of the argument.

Harvard will be represented against Bates College by F. W. Lorenzen '28, of New Haven, Connecticut, C. E. Wyzanski '27, of Brookline, and E. M. Rowe '217, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Mark Winkley '28 of Lawrence will be the alternate.

The Harvard debaters are upholding the same side of the question against Bates College which they defended unsuccessfully against Leland Stanford Thursday night. In the debate between Harvard and Stanford, the westerners defeated the Harvard speakers by an audience vote of 62 to 45.

Bates Has Downed Stanford

Wednesday night the Leland Stanford debaters, who met Harvard as one of a schedule of Eastern debaters, were in turn defeated by Bates College in their defense of the same question: "Resolved: That there is more to be feared than hoped for from science.

A little over a month after the encounter with Dates, the University will take part in the second round of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League's debate. On February 26, there will be a triangular meet with Wesleyan and Brown. The final round, the one which will decide the Intercollegiate Championship, will be held on March 25 with Yale and Princeton.

Crimson Holds Title

Last year, the University won the championship with three victories. The present Crimson team gives promise of repeating the extraordinary success of last year.