Word: objectionable
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Although the present intercollegiate strength test has done much to raise the standard of strength and physical efficiency in the colleges participating, it is open to several serious objections. In the first place, the expense of the dynamometers and other instruments used in making it, restricts its use to the...
Another objection to the present system is that after the first election there is no interest in class meetings. Such meetings well conducted might provide a training in the business of a deliberative assembly which is sadly needed. A presiding officer who knows how business ought to be done, and...
The main contention of Hornblower, the third speaker for Princeton, was that the power of national interference can be vested in no one but the President. He showed that the federal courts are judicial, whereas the proposed power requires executive force. Nor can the power, he said, be given to...
Catchings closed the main debate for Harvard. He said that to make a radical change in our government when unnecessary is bad enough, but to make that change when it means serious practical evils is far worse. These are two of the specific evils of the change advocated by the...
The competition for Campbell's old place at left end has been very keen and has been settled only during the last week. There were a number of good men for the position, and all of them--Jones, Clark, Burgess, Randall and Motley--were given trials. At last Mills, who...