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There were some connecting threads between last week's debate and its 1933 counterpart. The Oxford Union's treasurer back then was Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, who did not speak on that famous first occasion but today advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. One of the featured speakers last week was Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, who, like his father before him, argued the case for fighting. Another was Historian Max Beloff, 69, who as an Oxford undergraduate 50 years ago supported the pacifist line. This time Beloff, a lord, was on the other side. Said...
Harvard's Dave Boyum and his counterpart from William, Greg Zaff, were playing squash Tuesday at Hemenway...
Rittenburg won his third straight Track and Field Association-USA National Indoor Pentathlon Championship on January 23. The pentathlon is the indoor counterpart of the decathlon. The indoor version consists of five events, the 55 meter high hurdles, the long jump, the shot put and the grueling 1000 meter race...
Such a character was Captain Mac Whirr of Joseph Conrad's short story Typhoon, a man whose physiognomy was "the exact counterpart of his mind: it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale...
...blanked their Tiger rivals, giving the Crimson a 2-0 lead and a confidence boost. Soon after that, Boyum and Jernigan upped the Harvard lead to four, and looked as if sophomore Pete Dinneen would cap a Harvard victory after only the first five matches. He led his Tiger counterpart two games to none, only to lose the next three...