Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Murray's haughty assertion that the Pope will never consent to sit as an equal among the equals at the World Council of Churches shows how far the Roman Catholic Church has deviated from both the spirit and teaching of Christ and the practice of the early church. Christ was most emphatic in stating that the only supremacy His followers could covet was to be based not on domination but on humble service (St. Matthew...
...assistant professor of English Composition, and Theodore Brameld, professor of educational philosophy at New York University, disagreed with Ralph W. Sullivan, author of last year's controversial bill to remove tax exemption privileges from schools employing Communist teachers, and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick'28, formerly on the Boston City Council and at present a member of the city's School Board. The Forum was moderated by Francis Keppel'38, Dean of the Faculty of Education...
...policy has worked wonderfully well, but it is becoming clear that there are some fields in which financial independence does not operate to the University's best interests. The Dean's office is aware of the problem in debating and has used its discretionary funds to keep the Debate Council alive. This solves immediate problems but not the long range one of raising debate standards to what they should...
Expenses in debating involve caring for visiting teams, travelling around the Ivy League, and hiring a coach. For the past two years, the Council has sacrificed having a coach for a large debate schedule. By rights, the task of caring for visiting teams belongs to the Crimson Key, but that society does not have money for the job either. A coach is supplied to all the other Ivy League teams by the speech departments, but Harvard's speech department is not in a position to do anything but sympathize with the Debate Council...
This whole problem boils down simply to the traditional policy of a lack of emphasis on speech. If a member of the faculty could be assigned as the Debate Council's coach and given time to supervise all its debates, as is done in the other Ivy League schools, most of the debaters' problems would be solved. But until the university regards speech and debating that important, Harvard's team will stay near the Ivy League cellar...