Word: oral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles E. Zeitlin '53 and Samuel B. Potter '53, representing the Jaffee Club, have won the Ames Competition qualifying round award for the best brief by second-year in the Law School. Potter also won for oral argument...
...Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography (The Spirit of St. Louis), gave his $500 prize money to Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery, in memory of his maternal grandfather, Dentist Charles H. Land (1847-1922). A revolutionary figure in dentistry, Dr. Land perfected a way of enveloping defective teeth in porcelain jackets, and in 1884 invented a gas furnace for baking the porcelain. Lindbergh first made friends with Columbia Dental School when he started parceling out items from his grandfather's laboratory...
...steer Brazil down the middle of the road. ¶ Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who seized power in June's anti-Communist revolution, was legally confirmed in office. By having the voters asked out loud whether they wanted him to continue in office and requiring an oral answer, he managed to roll up the vote in the proportion of 1,000 to one. Concurrent elections for an assembly to write a new constitution produced some possibly troublesome opposition for the future-not from the well-beaten Communists, but from ambitious politicos of the extreme right wing...
...morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...
...without which we cannot exist as [a] nation. We come back to where we started-to the President. The decisions are his. Helped by his advisers, ultimately he must decide. The volume of work which should be done is appalling. It cannot be got through by listening to oral presentations, or "briefings," or reading one-page memoranda. It has to be sweated out. The facts have to be mastered, the choices and their consequences understood-so far as consequences can be understood, and then, upon "judgments and intuitions more subtle than any articulate major premise," the decision made...