Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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Minnerstgx SCHOOL Debatzzzg DEBATING '1 EAM fron! R011 Petty Williams Thomas Rosenthall Second Rau Mr Briggs Gilmour Lynd l' Yarns worth Robinson Hamilton Heckscher Tlarrd Rou Meyer Bogert Ayer The first debate of the year was a triangular debate between Middlesex Milton and St Marks On the subiect Resolved that U N forces should be withdrawn from Korea im mediately two Middlesex teams simultaneouslt debated against Milton at Middlesex and against St Marks at St Marks After recetvrng the subiect Percy Rosenthal! Williams and Fred Farnsworth lined up as the affirmative against Milton and Robinson Gilmour Hamilton and Thomas took the negative to go to St Marks About two dais of preparation were allowed and the night before the debate the two Middlesex camps met in the library and thrashed out the weak points in each others arguments after a formal debate The next afternoon one quartet iourneyed to St Marks with arguments to combat the vert arguments that the other was about to throw in the face of its guests from Milton The affirmative team argued that the cost of stating in Korea was too high and that little vias being gained The negative mean while spoke of the loss of prestige and faith in the whole world that would be incurred bi vtithdrawal saitng that it was our Christian dutx to go to the aid of the underdog and that withdrawal would be appeasement Both teams won unanimous decisions from the yudgcs demonstrating that Middlesex School trains its bots to talk out of both sides of their mouths On February I6 the Nobles debate took place. The subject was Resolved, that the vsorld Ones me a living. Not much impressed with the subject the Middlesex team of Rosenthall Heckscher Percy and Thomas nevertheless applied themselves diligently to the task of preparing arguments for the negative side which were not to be had in large quan- tities and on arranging them in the finest rhetoric fashion. During the debate, the Nobles team maintained that everyone should be given a chance to earn a living with which we agreed. Hoviever with the help of Mr. Briggs' new Merritxm-Webster lnternational Un- abridged Dictionary which the Middlesex team hal lugged to the debate Middlesex proved that such fl contention was not within the scope of the debate, and that in order to prove Pug e Sixli COM ORD Massact-tUsrTTs

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the resolved the afhrmatne would have to prose that everyone should be provlded wrth suste nance whether he was wlllrng to work or not The judges awarded a unammous declslon to Nixddlesex on the basrs of the qualxty of our effectne speaklng On February 7 the thxrd class debatrng team composed of Ayer Nieyer Bogert and Lyncl had a debate wrth the Nobles thlrd class team on the subyect Resolved that caprtal pumshment should be abolrshed It provlded amusement for all and resulted rn a unanr mous declsron for Mlddlesex whreh you may count rnto the total record or not as you see ht The Groton debate took plaee on Aprrl ll on the subject Resolved that the defer ment of able college students ns a sound natnonal polncy Groton had the negatrve and the affirmative was represented by Percy Wllll3mS Rosenthall and Thomas The afhrmatrve to college IS determrned mostly by money and any plan would favor the rrch Rosenthall rn the third constructlve speech put our ace on the table by proposing a plan of federal schol arshrps whereby only the best students would be sent to college Apparently Groton was not prepared to gnve up the mainstay of thexr arguments wrthout a struggle as they contmued to denounee our snde of the argument as unfarr untrl well mto the dnscusslon perrod when they hnallx gave up thrs contentron and trred to prove our plan too costly All through the debate our pornt was that the better ofhcer materral ns to be found rn college graduates Fxnally they trned to prove that Mrddlesex was off the subyect Thomas rn has rebuttal dtscounted all these arguments and showed that Groton had falled to prove deferment unsound The 1udges awarded another unanrmous decxsron thus makrng the year a perfect record not only undefeated but unyudged agamst Thrs duphcates the record of last years team and puts Mrddlesex debaters at the top of the l1st Glee Club and Dmllmtzc Actzwizev 1951 marked a most sueeessful year for the Glee Club whxch wnth a large percentage of tts members experrenced sxngers and wrth Moses Wrllrams Monty Chrlds and Drck Tom krns as ofhcers soon became a smoothly functronmg organxzatlon and began work on the mayor enterprlse of the year Beethox en s Mass rn C mayor Opus 96 At the Chrxstmas Carol Service ln December Mlddlesex yorned forees with Concord Academy and presented three movements from the Miss as well as many tradltlonal carols Page Sixlx -one MlDI3LhSEX SeHoo1. CoNc:oRn. lVfASSACHUSI:TTS L . A A A , I I r 'V . A A . V A A n I started off by condemning any plan to defer college students as undemocratic, as ability' to go