Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to most un-assisted, undergraduate organizations, the Debate Council represents the University in numerous contests with other schools. Much like an athletic team, the Council must participate in Ivy League and invitational tournaments. But even more important, the speaking contests now take place before large audiences. On the recent Mid-Western tour, for example, nearly ten thousand people heard the Harvard team...
...finance these trips, the Council now depends on a one hundred and fifty dollar fund awarded every other year at the University's discretion. The only team instruction is the occasional assistance donated by a member of the speech department on his own time. In marked contrast are the yearly thousand dollar budgets and ample coaching staffs of Yale, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The Harvard Council, in order to fill all its obligations, has organized a fund-raising alumni committee to support the debating program. Following the Council's initiative the least the University can do is provide...
Actor March's performance is so convincing, in fact, that by contrast the upbeat ending seems a little silly. At the big board meeting, Holden hits the sawdust trail for bigger and better production, full employment, community service, and some sort of universal good. Exciting as the scene is, it leaves the spectator wondering whether business really needs such frenzied philosophic justification. The trouble with some of the boys in this executive suite may be that they secretly agree with Sinclair Lewis. They still feel vaguely ashamed of making money, and perhaps they try to salve their consciences...
This assessment is supported by a Radcliffe girl whom Schine dated frequently. She describes how Schine was obsessed with power and the contrast between the strong and the weak. She tells of a paper which he wrote for a Human Relations course that he took. The paper was supposed to describe a concrete situation of human interaction, and Schine chose a real conflict with his roommate and the other men on the floor. It seems that all the others on the floor were extremely good friends, very gregarious, and liked to have the fire doors on the floor left open...
...start of the race, with some 31,000 fans watching Whitfield, Halberg jumped to a quick lead. Running with short, choppy strides in sharp contrast to Whitfield's flowing glide, Halberg built up a 15-yd. advantage at the end of the first quarter. He kept right on increasing the advantage through each quarter. At the end, without ever bothering to look back and without ever being pressed, Halberg short-strided across the finish line in a respectable 4:10. Whitfield was timed in 4:16.7, a full 35 yds. behind...