Monday. March 16. 1959 University Daily Kansan
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TO THE VICTORS, THE SPOILS—Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presents the Heart of America Debate Tournament first place trophy to United States Military Academy debaters James D. Ruppert, left, and Charles B. Fegan.
The Heart of America Debate Tournament resembled a practice session for the United States Military Academy teams Saturday, with both teams in the final round of competition.
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The first place trophy went to the Academy's negative team, Charles B. Fegan and James D. Ruppert, both juniors.
Fegan, who was a member of the North Kansas City high school debate team, said that the team had been determined to win the tournament even before it started.
"We were here last year and only won two rounds. When we got a chance to come back this year, we decided there wasn't anything to do but win!" he said.
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Ruppert termed the Heart of America contest one of the toughest competitive debates he has participated in.
the winning USMA team in the semifinals. Losing to the other academy team was Augustana College.
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The University of Kansas team of Ray Nichols, Lawrence junior, and Don Bowen, Salina junior, lost in the octifinals to Northwestern University.
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Captain Corman C. Smith, director and coach of the two teams, was smiling happily after the tournament.
"That's the first time both of my teams have ended up in the finals, and it will probably be the last. But it was fun while it lasted," he said.
Both USMA teams started out in the tournament on the negative side. When they both reached the finals, the members of one team were forced to change their argument to affirmative.
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The topic for the tournament was "Resolved: That the Further De- development of Nuclear Warfare Should Be Banned by International Agreement."
music
Mendelsohn's well-worn "Violin Concerto," lovely despite its familiarity, was appallingly graceless in the hands of soloist Melvin Ritter and conductor Van Remoortel. Someone should introduce the two.
I don't think the orchestra's trouble is a matter of inferior personnel, because after intermission it delivered a possible performance of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" in which many of its sections shone.
Hoch balcony is always warm, but if the program is good, one hardly notices the heat. People were sweating and squirming Friday. The Suite from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" was performed so raggedly as to be almost incoherent.
Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Louisville, Rochester, Dallas and their like are exciting orchestras. They play interesting programs and they play them well. If last Friday's concert in Hoch is any indication, though, St. Louis does not belong on the list.
into the next tutti. It was just as well. Mr. Ritter's playing was thin, inaccurate and unconvincing.
The 1950's have been glorious years for the country's second-echelon orchestras. This has been partially because several of the great orchestras have slipped. The NBC is no more; the New York Philharmonic suffered until recently from the absence of a permanent conductor, and the Boston Symphony, although convalescing nicely from the bitter factional feud of a few years back, sounds less like a first-rate American orchestra than a second-rate French one.
Mr. Van Remoortel seemed impatient of his soloist's figuration-patterns, and was forever rushing
But it is unfair to Dvorak, who is an underrated composer, to trot this tired old war-horse out on stage again. Orchestras on tour have to play a certain number of stand-bys because of rehearsal schedules, but programming this and the Mendelssohn was inexcusable. The competent performance of the Dvorak did not prevent Friday from being a dismal thirteenth—Stuart Levine, instructor of English.
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