Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...objection to partisan political gatherings is that only one side of an argument is presented...
...tickets and the feeling that one is going to sit in a Harvard crowd would bring many to the games who now hate to bother with special tickets for each game and feel out of place when they let their enthusiasm carry them away in the midst of non-partisan stands...
...suppose it is found that some where the people don't control their own government, a condition which will be considered hypothetical, even though it is the fact in many notorious cases. Suppose that there is a bi-partisan machine which, no matter how the elections go, will run the government to suit the demands of the big interests which supply both sides with funds. Supposing these things, it is not destroying the fundamentals of our government to suggest changes; it is rather going back to the fundamentals...
...Civil War. Unless he does, the country as it is today, is unintelligible to him, and the men, the battles, and the issues of fifty years ago mean nothing more than names to him. At Harvard there is no one course that presents an intelligent, comprehensive and non-partisan view of the conflict, that induces a point of view which the Northerner and Southerner can hold together, that can inspire patriotism and at the same time not awaken partisan feeling. Without such a course an ignorance flourishes which not only shuts men from an interesting topic of conversation, but also...
Time-honored rivals meet on the Stadium football field this afternoon at 2 o'clock when Harvard and Yale line up for their thirty-first gridiron contest. The game will be witnessed by 40,000 partisan spectators and promises to be one of the hardest fought contests of the year...