Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L., and A. P. Matthew 1L. represented the University, and spoke in the order named. The Yale team consisted of E. H. Hart '07, J. N. Pierce 3D., and H. D. Smith 1D., who also spoke in the order named. Each man was allowed twelve minutes for a main speech, and five minutes for rebuttal...
...Matthew, in closing the main argument of the affirmative, summarized the advantages that would come to New York City through municipal ownership. He first considered the effect it would have on the politics of the city. The franchise-holding corporations are responsible for by far the greater part of the corruption in New York City, he said: The street railway companies, because of their primacy in power and wealth, have been the chief agents of evil. They have secured their franchises by bribery; they have swindled the city out of millions of dollars in taxes; they have purchased legislation almost...
...take into consideration the physical and mental differences between the nations of the world that opens a wider scope to the soul. He showed the essential difference between the East and West. The West is governed by the great desire to "do." The philosophy of energy is instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental mind. An atmosphere of mystery enshrouds the universe. The Western man seeks the truth...
...question, "Resolved, That it would be for the best interests of New York City to own its street railway system," in the debate with Yale at New Haven on March 30. The Harvard team, composed of A. H. Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L. and A. P. Matthew 1L., is being coached by R. T. Parke...
...first trials to select the team to debate against Yale at New Haven on March 30, were held in Upper Dane last night, and resulted in the choice of A. H. Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L and A. P. Matthew 1L. The question for the Yale debate will be the same as that argued in the trials, "Resolved, That it would be for the best interest of New York City to own its street railway system." The other three men who spoke in the final trials, J. A. Harley '06, J. W. Russell '06 and C. A. Small...