Word: defend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leland Stanford debaters are meeting Harvard as one of a schedule of Eastern debates. Last night they met Bates at Lewiston, Maine Harvard will defend the affirmative side of the same question. "Resolved: That there is more to be feared than hoped for from science," against Bates College on Saturday, January 8th, at Phillips Exeter Academy in an exhibition debate...
...Leland Stanford debaters are meeting Harvard as one of a schedule of eastern debates. Tonight they are meeting Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Harvard will defend the affirmative side of the same question: Resolved; that there is more to be feared than hoped for from science, against Bates College on Saturday, January 8th at Exeter Academy in an exhibition debate...
...help support the American Embassy." At this, Mrs. Dawes rose (out of order) from her seat, and in a voice trembling with emotion declared: "I think we have struck the very lowest note of the week listening to charges of bribery and corruption against men not present here to defend themselves...
Asked about his predicament, Superintendent McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...those who are ever alert for data with which to defend the present importance given to athletics in colleges and universities comes some interesting news from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron...