Word: defender
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quarter back defend...
...case, elective officers and administrative officers (heads of departments, etc.) must be allowed to take action in politics. - (a) They are the oldest men in the party. - (b) They determine the issues and policy of the party. - (c) They must defend their measures and advance the party policy...
History cares for the individual only as he represents the family or state. History ought not to be made use of to defend a cause, and we should bear in mind that there are no real breaks in history. The historian first should be a gleaner of facts, and second, should have the power to combine facts so as to bring them out in their full significance...
...convey the idea that little interest is taken in them at all. More serious than this, however, is the case where the question takes the form of a reproof or a challenge. Then it is the place of every Harvard man to be able to stand up and defend the actions of his university against outside attacks. But in order to do this he must know the ground on which he is standing. He ought to follow closely, not only the actions of athletic committees, but also of the governing boards of the university...
...fact that it is the safest body to which to entrust the athletic welfare of the college. The students, therefore, want to be solidly behind the Committee and in a position to support it intelligently. Doubtless there are many men in college who have found themselves called upon to defend the action of the Athletic Committee on some matter but who have been forced to keep silent because they had no accurate knowledge of the arguments which had influenced the committee to the action in question...