Robert Gottlieb '52, Wins Literary Oratorial Contest Robert Gottlieb '52 was judged 5 by Prof. Jacque Barzun of the History Department to have given the best oration on"The Possibility of Experience" in the Philolexian Oratorical Cdntest held yesterday as Harkness Theatre. Gottlieb, who received a $l5O award, concerned himself with the problem That faces the American citizen of today. This country, he stated has no well defined tradition which can prove a guide to our future actions as do our European contemporaries. This fact, he felt, was important, in that it provided unlimited area for an expansion of experience of possibility. "Innocence and freshness is not so much what we need today," he remarked. "Rather, it is necessary that we apply experience in formulating our moral values and conclusions. This experiencej in the national sense is lacking in this country, and thus we find…

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