Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group which will defend the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That the trend toward vocational education in American colleges and universities should be deplored," is composed of F. deW. Bolman '35, O. M. Lurie '35, and H. H. Freedlander '35, and will make the trip to Yale. In the large Common Room of the Union, the Freshman negative team made up of F. L. Wiegand, Jr. '35, Morris Pfaelzer II '35, and Robert Kramer, Jr. '35 will oppose a Yale group composed of Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Wilson Sked, and Lincoln Brownell...
...first meeting with Smith College since 1928, the Harvard Debating Council will send, D. M. Sullivan '33 and A. E. Phillips '34, as its representatives to Northampton tomorrow evening, to defend the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That in the interests of the public some laws should be ignored...
...Forum's bi-weekly meetings Professors McIlwain, Tozzer, Sorokin, and Matthiessen have been asked to defend their subjects as college disciplines, and their talks have usually led to vigorous debate. The one thing which the Forum has not done is to reach any settled conclusions as to the relative value of the fields of history, anthropology, or sociology. In its discussions, however, fundamental questions of ethics, art, and education have been raised. It is in putting these questions, in defining basic issues that the Forum has been of value...
Acclaimed as "China's Hero" when his troops offered the only serious resistance to Japanese occupation of Manchuria, General Ma swore to defend Tsitsihar "to the Death." He received thousands of dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across...
...represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park. The Speaker of Canada's House looked at the rabbits, pulled a .22 calibre target pistol from his desk, stalked them cannily 'round the Houses of Parliament, killed six, returned...