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...That in the opinion of this Board, many of the unsatisfactory conditions attending intercollegiate football has been exaggerated by an unwillingness on the part of the officials charged with the enforcement of the rules on the field to assert their authority, and therefore this Board requests the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports to formulate if possible some more satisfactory plan for the selection of such officials than the one now in vogue...
Joseph de Maistre condemned the Revolution and proclaimed that the only way to save society and restore Christianity was to assert the principles of authority and obedience. These principles he exalted in the church as well as in the state, and his Ultramontanism, or leaning towards the Roman See, was directed against the sovereignty of the people...
...abiding. When a body of men loses its respect for law, it endangers the stability of society. Disregard for law, however, is but one of the many manifestations of the underlying spirit of trade unionism--a spirit which seeks to create caste, to create clique interests, to assert the superior importance of trade unions, and to set their interests above the interests of all other parties...
Rebutting the points of Burton, the first affirmative speaker, Rabenold said that the discussion must concern not special but general tendencies. The affirmative has shown simply that the working man has tried to assert himself; this self-assertion is a defense against encroaching capitalism, and is in the best interests of the whole community...
Hornblower, answering Catchings in rebuttal, said that the affirmative did not assert that the States could not protect themselves. If the power of the States is found now to be adequate, the proposed power to be given the President is not necessary. But many instances have been cited to prove that it is not adequate. Domestic violence is not a matter of State concern. Our economic conditions make it inevitable that trouble in one State affects the nation...