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Speakers for UMT were Jack Casey 3L and Robert A. N. Fisher '46, both members of the HYRC Speakers Bureau, which grooms club members for speaking before outside organizations. Opposing them were Geoffrey W. White '48, a member of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, and Miss Betsy Cushing, chairman of the Greater Boston Council of Students Opposed...
...Modern Language Center, under the direction of Professor G. W. Sherburn comprises the third major collateral organization. Although students are required to have a thorough speaking knowledge of English before they enroll, discussion with language-teaching faculty members and other students at the Center are of constant...
...contending that American free enterprise has failed to solve the problems of unemployment, monopoly, and inefficiency, the Oxford representatives, Anthony N. W. Benn and David K. Harris supported the affirmative, asserting that nationalization of only 20 percent of industry has solved these problems for England...
...other hand, the Oxford team said, Americans hold great misconceptions about England today. "Life in Great Britain is quite different from Great Britain in Life (magazine); where most Americans seem to get their ideas about the way we live, claimed Anthony N. W. Benn, captain of the Oxford team...
First, the Weather Bureau's research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer...