Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...estimating the influence or importance of an institution which is not so over-estimated by the participators in it. The college debater is supposed to carry away the firm idea that the methods of point-debating are the methods of public life; he is supposed to assume that his proof by statistics and juggling with masses of facts forms the basis for all conviction. Far from it. He knows and everyone knows who hears him that he is taking part in a beneficial mental exercise. He is developing speaking ability and the power of logical analysis. The debater certainly receives...
...never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power to do that which is good for us! Proof: Germany. Diplomatic history shows that the United States breaks its agreements when "essential to our vital interests." The only effective way of fighting the evils in the world is no longer quixotically to "teach a lesson" to other nations' evildoers, but to turn our attention to the organized viciousness...
...Student Battalion is to attain the full regimental complement of twelve hundred men, it is imperative that every man who provisionally signed up be present and enlist definitely at the mass meeting today. The best immediate proof that Harvard can give of its patriotism will be twelve hundred men in uniform, and the possibility of this proof being given depends upon the willingness of the individual to make sacrifices...
...collected at the Harvard-Princeton game was $3,200. At the Yale-Princeton game, which was witnessed by 55,000 people, only $5,276.80 was contributed, an average of less than ten cents per individual. If every spectator today contributes a dollar, the resulting total will present an irrefutable proof that American sympathy and willingness to help have not died...
...suggestion that the proof of every number be read by somebody who can spell. I write this in fear, knowing what the CRIMSON...