Word: defender
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present holder of the championship in England, and he will defend the title on returning from his American tour...
...interpretation of the law and the defence of his client, the advocate seeks no mean or technical success, but the truth; in the church the minister desires not first to defend his own position, but to know what is the truth; in politics the legislator or the voter thinks not first of party success and popular legislation, but what is, on the whole, in the name of and for the cause of the truth; in the intricate social problems the citizen's chief concern is not the protection of his own interests, the strengthening of his own prejudices...
...Harvard sent the flower of her sons to preserve the Union and defend the flag. In memory of those who fell a stately tower now rises in our midst, - but the flag they fought to save is nowhere flying...
...Yale News has recently brought about rather an animated discussion of Yale's compulsory chapel exercises, the principle of which it undertakes to defend, though finding severe fault with its working in practice. The facts brought out by the discussion furnish a basis for interesting comparison between the Yale compulsory and the Harvard voluntary system of religious worship...
...champion there shall be a "guard" of four men. Any one of these may challenge the champion to a match for his title and any member of the club may challenge any member of the guard for his place. There shall also be a sophomore champion who must defend his title from any man in the two lower classes. The executive committee appointed as guard: W. L. Van Kleeck '95, J. Hewins '96, L. B. Shoenfeld '95, H. Lewis '96; and as sophomore champion, A. W. Ryder. Hewins has already begun a match with the present champion, S. M. Ballou...