Word: defender
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...necessary semi-annual "cramming" could not be worse; about one-fifth of the midyears have actually been done away with, and all admit that grading on six or eight hour examinations and on the outside work is perfectly possible and decidedly preferable. Practically no one stands up to defend the long exams. Not only is the whole force of public opinion against them, but the judgment of most of the men who would vote for abolition is in favor of the change. The point which I should like to have elucidated is, why, then, are they not abolished...
This is strong language and we feel called upon to answer the charges brought against us and defend our action in its publication...
...have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when...
...study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very apt unconsciously...
...that the Intercollegiate Debating Union is organized, it is important that Harvard prepare to defend her laurels and to win new ones. We have excellent material for this purpose; the question is, how to get the best results from...