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They protested several purported errors of fact in last Friday's CRIMSON article on the Council. Perhaps they discerned a slur on the Council's achievement during Mr. Zurier's term; they specifically objected to the use of the word "purge" in connection with the results of last February's elections; and they asserted that the vote of confidence which Mr. Zurier received at that time was a fairer index of the Council's sentiment...
...Zurier's administration did receive a vote of confidence, 281 with 9 abstentions. This might even be considered less than the endorsement its achievements merited. Under Mr. Zurier's administration and endowment fund was begun, and 35 out of 73 debates were won. But it is also true that the Council has flourished in Mr. Becker's tenure, with $1000 added to the fund, 55 out of 88 debates won last spring alone, and the Ivy League and Eastern Regional Championships brought to Cambridge, both for the first time in the Council's history. Neither administration need apologize...
...chief matters of dispute were the election of a new executive council, and whether Mr. Zurier's administration had unconstitutionally attempted to select its successors. The latter question was never finally settled. In the subsequent voting the administration's candidate for the presidency was defeated by Mr. Becker...
...should also be noted that a large share of last year's fine record, both financial and forensic, was compiled during the tenure of last year's executive board. H. Werner Pleus '51 Melvin L. Zurier '50 1L Jerome B. Spunt '50 Norman M. Hinerfold...
...season's events comes during the Triangular Debate tryouts. At that time, the two best speeches are awarded the Coolidge Prize. The Council's faculty advisor, Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '40, associate professor of Public Speaking, is always one of the three judges. Becker and ex-president Melvin L. Zurier '50, won the $100 award last season...