Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rebuttal on both sides was generally clean cut and intelligent, though there were individual instances on both teams of an inclination to miscalculate time and attempt to cover too many points. Princeton secured considerable profitable emphasis by frequent pointed summaries--a respect in which the Harvard team was inferior to those of former years...
Reed opened for Harvard. The negative argument, he said, was grouped under three distinct heads. First, that the present law is unenforceable strictly; second, that it is practically irrepealable; and third, that the attempt to enforce it would fasten evils of the greatest magnitude upon New York City. Of these three points, Reed considered the first two from the point of view of existing conditions in New York. It is impossible to prevent the extensive violation of this law by any ordinary means or to enforce it as one of the general body of laws. Both parties to every illegal...
Grossman, in the second negative speech, contended that the strict enforcement of the excise law and the closing of the saloons brought about violations of the law in a co-ordinate form which are just as illegal and even more pernicious in their nature than those which it is attempted to suppress. But, on the other hand, Mayor Low's policy of judicious enforcement, recognizing that the law is not enforceable strictly, is made necessary by forces actually at work in New York life. The first of them is the increased temptation to blackmail which strict enforcement would hold...
After referring briefly to the arguments of the last speaker, Clark closed the constructive case for the negative by defending the policy of judicial enforcement on practical, moral and theoretical grounds. An attempt to enforce this law would be certain to result in the return of Tammany to power at the end of next year. The reason for this is evident when we consider that unless there is a union of all anti-Tammany forces, Tammany is sure to elect its ticket--even last fall a few thousand votes turned the other way would have changed the result. Besides...
...Harvard-Yale Freshman basketball game, scheduled for tonight, has been cancelled, owing to the fact that the Yale team has disbanded. An attempt was made to arrange a game for tonight with the Tufts College team, but that team has also disbanded...