Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit of their college. To the Finance Club we are indebted for one of the most instructive lectures ever given in Sanders Theatre. We are essentially the disciples of Free Trade at Harvard, and it is only fair that the other side should have a chance to defend itself. Such an opportunity was given last night, and though we may still cling to our free trade dogmas we are at least gratificd to hear a manly and independent exposition of the doctrines of our dissenting brethren...
...were frequent and severe, especially just before commencement. Good conduct as well as scholarship was essential in order to obtain a degree. "Every scholar that giveth up in writing a system or synopsis or some of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy; and is ready to defend his theses or positions; withal, skilled in the originals as above said and of godly life, is fit to be dignified with his second degree...
...Association game, where it is a foul if any one save the goal keeper touches the ball with the hands or arms. As Priest put it, "No one but the goal keeper must touch the ball, but he must do his very best with head, hands and feet, to defend the goal...
...this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might...
...study during the remainder of the afternoon. Ability to translate passage of the Bible from the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic into Latin, and to expound biblical texts, were the main requisites for the Bachelor's degree. A scholastic digest of logic, ethics, physics, mathematics, etc., with ability to defend theses, superceded to the above-mentioned biblical training and approved piety secured to the candidates the degree of Master of Arts...