Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of revolutionary projects. Should it prove possible to support the needy with administrative salaries, that too will be advocated. The problems of the State Department have proved no more perplexing than Dean Bundy's, and occasionally we have even carried the word to the Western Allies. If the topic occasionally lacked proper weight, it was naturally obscured in a whimsical haze. These are all the dog days, however, and we are ready to bark up al the little trees at once. Following are a number of minor steam releasers, conveniently labeled so you can pick and choose...
...want of something better, Laborites pin their electioneering hopes on the wide spread British fear of the H-bomb (the Labor manifesto opposes more H-bomb tests, but stops short of opposing the making of the bomb). Topic B is the rising cost of living. But most curious of all, the word socialism is not even men tioned in the entire manifesto. The authors had in mind men like a London bus driver who explained last week: "I vote Labor because it speaks for the little man. But I can't stick nationalization and I don't like...
Both of the College's teams successfully argued the topic: "Resolved, That the inheritance of wealth is against the best interests of society." The negative defeated Yale unanimously, and the affirmative won a 2 to 1 decision over Princeton, although the audience at Sanders was informed otherwise, due to an erroneous telephone message...
Ralph I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 successfully defended the affirmative of the same topic against Princeton's Whig-Cleosophic Society...
...actual debates will take place this Friday, on the topic, "Resolved: The inheritance of wealth is not in the best interests of society." A team of Bryden, Fredrickson, and Cliff F. Thompson '56 will uphold the negative against Yale in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. An affirmative team of Ralp I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 will debate at Princeton. Gold medals will go to each of the debaters, continuing the tradition revived last year. The alternates, E. Leo Slaggie '56 and Evan R. Berlack '56 receive silver awards...