Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council won its sixth straight contest against Hamilton College yesterday afternoon as William C. Bocker '51 and Richard W. Hulbert '51 argued the negative side of the old stand by, federal aid to education, in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows-well-met." Finally, the author draws an absurd parallel between the exclusiveness of political groups...
...discrimination may mean not only loss of an education, but also loss of job opportunities. Proponents of Senate 133 say that those schools which follow a non-discriminatory policy ordinarily have nothing to fear from anti-bias legislation, while those that have the questions and quotas can alter their stand without waiting for commission pressure...
After a five-day stand here, the show will go on the road. A tentative itinerary includes Hartford, Connecticut; Stamford, Connecticut; New York; Philadelphia; Poughkeepsie, New York; Buffalo, New York, Rochester, New York; Syracuse, New York; and Springfield. The show will play in Providence, Rhode island; and Worcester. The Pudding may also get the show on television...
...himself on the most suicidal part of the deck. He merely wore his usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been...