Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought it will have a special interest for the members of the debating clubs, yet, at this time of remarkable activity in debating at other colleges, the subject can not fail to attract general attention. Professor Baker is, moreover, by his experience in this work, particularly fitted to point out the merits and the faults of Harvard speakers...
...interest to have it settled by any civilized people as fast as possible, and to keep clear ourselves of all entanglements with it. Between these positions there are all degrees, and any one who thinks that public opinion is ready to stake the country's honor on any extreme point can not have read the newspapers or talked with many men. In spite of our familiarity with the name of the Monroe Doctrine the question of our present foreign policy comes as a new one, so long have we happily been exempt from any serious complication...
...interest requires; has it yet a place in international law, or is it simply an assertion which we offer to make good by force; is the Venezuela incident such a menace to our interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point of war or only so far as to prevent an implied surrender of it; does it involve the corrolary now asserted by our government, that "today the United States is practically sovereign on the continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confirms its interposition;" does...
...pregnant of calamity for civilization. Men at the student-age are easily swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what little they can towards bringing the threatened increase of armament to naught...
...next intercollegiate fencing competition which takes place in May, 1896, will arouse greater interest this year owing to the entrance of the Naval Academy at Annapolis; it is much to be regretted that West Point could not accept the invitation to compete extended to them by the fencing clubs of Harvard and Columbia...