Word: side
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hope that every man who can possibly do so will put aside study and private interests for an hour Monday evening and lend his moral support to the meeting of the United Religious Societies. If we, as a body of disinterested students can throw our weight on the side of peace and humanity there is no telling what good results will follow. Harvard stands before the country as an example in many things. Let every man do his duty...
Word has at length been received from Princeton as to her choice of side for the debate. Princeton will support the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." The debate, as before announced, will be held in Sanders Theatre, Friday, March 13. Each speaker will have first a twelve minute speech and in addition, according to the Princeton custom, five minutes for rebuttal...
...first exponent Washington. In its present shape it was in reality formulated by a Harvard man, afterwards President of the United States, John Quincy Adams. John Quincy Adams did much to earn the gratitude of all Americans. Not the least of his services was his positive refusal to side with the majority of the cultivated people of New England and the Northeast in the period just before the war of 1812, when these cultivated people advised the same spiritless submission to improper English demands that some of their intellectual descendants are now advising...
...competitive debate for the choice of men to speak in the Princeton debate will take place in Sever 11, Friday, January 17. Each speaker will be allowed five minutes and may support either side of the question...
...said to Mr. de Mauny-Talvande at the end of his lecture, his opinions are entitled to respect, but they are based on caste and party prejudices; he made a very inadequate presentation of the moral side of our educational system; its defects are magnified a thousand fold in his exposition; he is mistaken in asserting that party considerations govern the appointment of our school teachers; he is utterly wrong in saying that our late prime minister, Jules Ferry, wished the schools to be atheistic; he merely wanted them to be non-confessional; he fails to do justice...