Word: defended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hannibal Hamlin, minister to Spain, recently advised the students of Colby University to devote more time to the vigorous practice of extemporaneous speaking. Mr. Hamlin is right. The expense to college students of hiring lawyers to defend them in police courts in gate-stealing and sidewalk-destroying cases is no inconsiderable item...
...abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals gave an unfavorable impression of the state of civilization within our limits, and even today we have not freed ourselves from the reproach incurred by the recent exploits of our noted handits. Yet when we attempt to defend ourselves by pointing to the evidence of our higher civilization, we are confronted by the spectacle of our chief temple of learning housed in ancient barns and cramped and obstructed by the scantiness of resources which hardly permit it to assume the dignity of a common school...
...Carpenter, in the negative, thought that the old system had done its work and condemned it as tending to make sports exclusive, specialized, scientific and to highly developed in certain directions. If the affirmative wish to defend the old system they must in the end defend "Yale method...
...Mark Francis Napier is to defend Arabi Pasha before the coming court-martial...
...Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side of the conflict, and the faculty of the college, as loyal during the war to the Union as any body of men in the country, divides the prize between them. An incident trifling but significant. - [Waterbury, Ct., American...