Word: means
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plan suggests having Commencement a week earlier than usual. I understand from members of the Faculty that this will mean the opening of College one week earlier in the fall. Furthermore, this change will necessitate keeping the baseball team in training ten days after College closes, in case the full series of games is played, while under the present arrangement it is in training but three days later...
...speaker concluded by briefly out-lining the safeguard to the public peace which the greater power of the President would mean, the preventative effect which this power would have, and the necessity of such power for unusual crises...
Ballantine opened the debate for Harvard. We of the negative, he said, stand for the protection of life and property as strongly as do the affirmative. But we contend that the means for suppressing violence are already adequate, and that the new power which the affirmative propose to grant to the President would be both unnecessary and undesirable. As the law now stands the President has absolute power to put down all violence which infringes national law, and the States have power to suppress violence infringing State law alone, not only by calling out State troops, but by calling upon...
...possession of power of intervention by the President would mean the restoration of law and order and would always result for the public welfare. It is therefore, he concluded, both necessary and desirable that the President should have the power to deal directly with cases of domestic violence...
...Never forget your deturs. They mean more than a Victoria Cross. And above all never forget Harvard...