THE trial for the speakers to represent the college at the Yale-Harvard debate will be held by the Union this evening in Sever 11 at half past seven. The prospects for a good debate this year are very good; the Union has made arrangements to hold it here on a larger scale than last year and every effort will be made to make it a success. What is now wanted is firm backing from the college, an interest among the students that will bring out tonight from the college a large number of speakers. If the college takes the interest in these debates that they deserve and should have given them they may become in future years an important and interesting feature of intercollegiate contests The cry is often raised today, while the subject of intercollegiate athletics is being so generally discussed, that it is lamentable that athletic sports should be the only form of contests between colleges. Last year the intercollegiate debate was a welcome innovation and we should do all we can to make it more so this year. Moreover this idea of college debates is spreading elsewhere; Princeton and Amherst and Dartmouth are realizing their merits and planning to hold them. It is all the more incumbent upon us, therefore, to do our part in the debates with an earnest spirit and the determination to make them a success. Consequently the attendance at the trial debate tonight should be large.