Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of the debate, both sides agreed that the Pacific islands should be given ultimate independence. The Filipino Orators, arguing on the affirmative side of the issue at hand, showed the Philippines' urgent desire for independence. They went on to point out that the colony has the capacity to meet the responsibilities involved in their release from United States control. The visitors deplored the growing American imperialistic tendency. They believe that the time has now come for complete independence. The Philippines have reached a point where they can govern themselves: besides, the strong-armed protection by the United States...
Last spring Munroe won the quartermile in the Harvard interscholastic meet. He was, however, unable to participate in the Exeter-Andover meet last spring, because of a leg injury...
Eight University tennis players will meet Cornell's racquetmen this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Divinity courts, while four netmen from Dean Academy will encounter the 1931 team at 2 o'clock on the Jarvis Field courts...
...rival who has only recently renewed dual athletic relations with Harvard. Last winter the track team opened the series of contests which stretches through the next three years when it invaded Ann Arbor to take a victory from the Wolverines in the last race of an indoor meet. Backed by last year's record and a string of eight straight victories over college teams this spring, the University nine has yet to meet a foe of unquestionably equal rank. Michigan comes east with the highest sport credentials...
...interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached to the meet...