Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson debaters face Princeton tonight in the season's first official Ivy League Conference debate, taking the affirmative of the topic "Resolved, That basic non-agricultural industries should be nationalized...
...undertaking to which this series of lectures addresses itself is, it must be confessed, a pretentious one. There is involved, first the recognition that the wheel of destiny has turned. It has now come to a momentary pause, and the destinies of the world, fortunate or unfortunately, are placed in our surprised, reluctant and untrained hands...
...arias, "He shall feed his flock" and "He was despised," Miss Talbot established a contrast which should be drawn more clearly tonight. At first she was properly rejoicing, and later, intensely sorrowful. Neither her joy nor her grief were so effectively portrayed by her colleagues. Robert Gartside has sacrificed the excitement in his tenor voice for some fine control and smoothness. The former commodity is indispensable, however, in "Every valley shall be exalted," a pretty momentous prediction, after all. Few people expect to be disappointed in Paul Tibbetts; too many had reason to regret his lack of warmth last night...
...First Nominated...
...team is not a question mark club. On successive nights it walloped the MIT freshmen, 74 to 40, and Dean Academy, 60 to 35. The Terriers have only one starter over six feet, but three of the first team received "most outstanding schoolboy player" awards in Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire...