Word: defending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought not to make fun of it but defend it, and bear in mind the words of Mr. Bacon, 'Harvard, may she always be right, but Harvard, right or wrong.' " This savors too much of the "win at any cost" spirit, and does not give any good reason why we should not criticize the recent action. It seems also...
...Griffing closed the debate for the affirmative. The pole tax, he said, which the republicans defend, is unjust and unconstitutional and has been so regarded by such men as Sumner, Wilson and Burlingame...
...Question for the evening was then taken up, Resolved, that Commissioner Tanner should have been retained in office. Mr. G. B. Woomer opened the debate for the affirmative and stated that it was his duty to defend a much abused man, and he proposed to show that be fell in the performance of his duty, and that the causes of his downfall were two in number; small pensions, and the rerouting of pensions...
...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...
...next of the series of discussions on economic subjects, under the auspices of the Finance Club, will probably be a debate on tariff reform. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Orange, N. J., will speak for a reduction of the tariff, and Mr. J. H. Walker, of Worcester, will defend the protectionist system...