Word: defender
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play the Lynn Wanderers at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the grounds of the Lynn that the Wanderers have played a University team, and no adequate comparison of the teams can be made. The University team is very weak at batting being, with a few exceptions, unable to defend their wickets with any certainly. The bowling and fielding, however, are fair for so early in the season...
Harvard selected the question and Yale chose to defend the negative. The University team was composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L. and R. LuV. Lyman '03, who gave their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order was Lyman, Wagner and Grossman. For Yale R. H. Ewell '03 spoke first, A. Fox '03, second and C. D. Lockwood 3L., third. In the rebuttal the order was Fox, Lockwood and Ewell. The main speeches were twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five. The judges were President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost...
Sirs:--The three years' course is a matter of such importance that it seems to me astonishing that your recent editorial dealing therewith has not as yet called forth any reply. I have no desire to defend all the statements of that article in the New York Sun which was the subject of your attack, and which you describe as "a few mistaken assumptions and several chains of false reasoning." The Sun may be totally mistaken in what it says concerning the graduate departments, but it seems to have phrased not only in "readable," but also in reasonable fashion some...
...chess clubs of Oxford and Cambridge universities have issued a joint challenge to the chess clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, for a cable match to defend the Rice trophy. This match, if arranged, will be held in the spring, and will be the fifth in the series of matches for this trophy; of the four previous international intercollegiate matches, Great Britain has won two. America one, and one was drawn...
Harvard will defend the negative side of the question which is as follows: "Resolved, That whenever in the event of continued domestic violence, lives and property are not adequately protected by a State, it is for the public good that the President should have the power to afford protection without the application of the State for Federal aid." The Harvard team is composed of A. A. Ballantine '04, W. Catchings 2L., and J. Daniels '04. The alternate is G. P. Adams '03. For Princeton T. R. Good '04, G. S. Hornblower '04 and A. P. Scott will speak. The order...