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DEBATING TRIALS TO BE HELD TONIGHT

Cut Will be Made After Meeting at 6.30 O'clock Tonight--Three Minute Speeches Will be Made

Trials for its second League Debate this year will take place this evening at 6:30 o'clock in Harvard 6, it was announced last night by the F. W. P. Lorenzen '28, President of the Debating Council.

All members of the college are eligible to compete in the trials. Freshmen especially are given their first opportunity to try out for one of the major debates. Three minute speeches should be prepared on either side of the question "Resolved: That this house approves the recommendations of President Coolidge in regard to naval construction as contained in his budget message of December 8, 1926."

Tonight the candidates are to be cut to about eight men. Of this number six men will be chosen two men on each side of the question with one alternate.

As previously announced, the University Debating team will meet the Brown and Wesleyan orators in its second League Debate this year, and the first triangular clash of the season. The University team was victor in the first League Debate this fall, and last year it was the League champion.

J. E. Fulton 3L is coaching the Debating team. He had four years of debating experience at the University of Pittsburgh.

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In the forthcoming triangular debate the Crimson will engage the Brown speakers at Cambridge and Wesleyan at Middletown, Connecticut.

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