Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwestern University debaters edged an M.I.T. team Saturday night, by a judges' vote of 4-3, to win first place in the sixth annual Harvard Invitational Forensic Tournament...
About 200 debaters from 68 colleges will compete Thursday through Saturday in the Sixth Annual Harvard Invitational Tournament on the Topic, "Resolved: That further development of nuclear weapons should be prohibited by international agreement." Teams include Northwestern, national champion, and Pennsylvania, tournament champion...
...future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth in a class of 600. At I.U. Law School he graduated first in his class, dashed home to northwestern Indiana's Jasper County to win the first of five consecutive terms as prosecuting attorney of the Jasper-Newton county circuit...
...peasants of northwestern Spain tell a legend about Lake Sanabria. At its bottom, they say. lies the village of Villa-verde de Lucerna. It was drowned a long time ago. when Jesus, dressed as a pauper, came begging alms and the villagers turned him away. Only a few women who gave him bread were saved, as well as the oven in which the bread was baked -and the oven survived as a small hermitage on the western shore of the lake near the village of Ribadelago...
...Three. On a broader basis, the critics of Missouri and the other dominant journalism schools, e.g., Northwestern, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, argue that the liberal arts major is more suited to the long haul of newspapering than the J-school man: his background is broader, better preparing him to cope with assignments from atomics to Zionism. Instead of taking journalism courses, says Managing Editor Al Friendly of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "a boy would be better off reading Carlyle or studying the pigmentation of butterfly wings...