Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presentation, Harvard failed in the end to present a well knit constructive case. In intelligent definition of the real issue, analysis of the whole question and construction of a consistent case the Princeton speakers were clearly superior to their opponents. Harvard's only pretence of an alternative course to strict enforcement was a defense of Mayor Low's administration on the ground of general expediency. An especial merit of Princeton's argument at the outset was a sharp interpretation of the question as one of principle and not of expediency--that a law is a law and is put upon...
...challenged to enforce the excise law by a large body of citizens and that his duty with regard to it was all the more imperative on that account. He closed his speech with a quotation from one of the early speeches of President Lincoln on the necessity of the strict enforcement of all laws which stand unrepealed on the statute books...
...ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested on two main points--that Mayor Low is justified in not enforcing the excise law, first, because the conditions make it impossible; and, secondly, that because strict enforcement would have a demoralizing effect it was necessary, reasonable and just to accept a compromise...
...William Reed '64 of Taunton, spoke in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "Harvard During the Civil War." He said in part: Harvard in the early sixties was more like a present day preparatory school than a college. The discipline in those days was very strict. Going to sleep in Chapel, smoking in the Yard, or appearing in class rooms with unkept clothes was always followed by a summons to appear before President Felton. It was this discipline, however, which made the College in those days so united and which consequently made the separation of the students to join...
...Reid '01 followed Mr. Billings. He emphasized the need of physical purity and healthy habits in college men. Clean living and resolute allegiance to high principles will win ultimate recognition, the speaker said. The strict rules which govern athletic training may profitably be observed through a man's whole career in college--and afterwards...