With the largest membership it has had for several years, the Freshman Debating Council is formulating plans for an active season of forensic and social activities, which will begin with a dinner for the 35 members of the Council in the upper common room of the Freshman Union next Tuesday evening, it was stated last night by R.A. Stout '29, Secretary of the Union.

Each member of the Council will be presented with a shingle, or certificate of membership, having on it the seal of the Harvard Union. These certificates have never before been given. A temporary committee composed of Peter Bellamy '36, K.E. Colton '36, T.H. Quinn '36, A.G. Sullivan '36, J.S. Bach, Jr. '36, F.E. Sweetser, Jr. '36, and Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, is in charge of the affairs of the Council until permanent officers are elected, which will be shortly after the first debate. Several contests have been tentatively arranged.

Guests at the dinner next Tuesday will be Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, F.C. Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking. W.S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, and D.M. Sullivan '33, President of the University Debating Council. The following Freshmen members of the 1936 Debating Council who are not on the Committee will attend: B.C. McDonald, Melvin Levy, K.M. Smith, J.A. Strauss, E.A. Zraick, L.C. Lewin, J.M. Sheesley, Harold Winkler, H.J. Hunter, H.P. Luz, F.M. Truitt, Leavitt Howard, D.H. Gordon, Jr., B.T. Woodle, W.A. Amesbury, W.S. Zeman, S.M. Bessie, H.V. Poor, A.A. Ballantyne, Jr., D.S. Debard, A.J. Rothman, J.S. Weber, C.B. Feibleman, W.W. Sprague, Hugh Gore, R.M. Drysdale, Jr., G.R. Farnham, Paul Rothkrug.