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Gerald W. Gorman '54 won the trophy as the outstanding negative debater in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Invitational Debate Tournament this weekend. Twenty-four New England colleges with 124 entries competed for the individual honors.
The Society's welcome embraces even debating teams, with beds provided at the Houses. Some Key members recall that in 1948 the University of Pennsylvania disrupted their plans by bringing a female debater, but some violent last-minute activity secured a bed for the lady at Radcliffe.
MAJOR GENERAL HANS SPEIDEL, also 55, who was chief of staff to Field Marshal Rommel in France, later imprisoned for complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, and liberated by the French army. A straight-backed man who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (after the...
Bill Buckley came to Yale in 1946 with deep-rooted beliefs in Christianity and individualism, beliefs which were probably shared by most of his classmates that year. But while many of Yale '50's values were modified during its four years at college, Buckley's remained fixed. During his stretch...
With the smooth logic of a debater, Buckley states his case: 1) Yale's teaching shows no attempt to inculcate students with the twin values of Christianity and individualism; 2) Yale alumni are overwhelmingly Christian and individualist; 3) Therefore these alumni should hold off contributing to their alma mater until...