Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intimated and President Harding denied, a first step toward the League of Nations? If it does involve such a possibility at least there is here a genuine issue as to policy. Although the court is the direct creation of the league and depends upon the league budget for its support, it may be that it is so far dissociated from its organization that adhering to the protocol creating the court, as the administration spokesmen have asserted, will involve no other commitments to the league. Yet the fact that so many professional and non-professional advocates of the league...
...arrangements effected under them, and while oc- cupied principally with advisory opinions, it nevertheless has demonstrated its usefulness. The advisory opinion, though not involving strictly a judicial function, has been arrived at with all the thoroughness and technique of a judicial proceeding. Though there still seems to be some support in the court for the secret opinion and the decision of cases where the defendant is absent, it is believed that the court will hardly thing of adopting these objectionable practices...
...would probably have no say? If this is not likely, as is believed, just what important function is our joining the court designed to subserve? If it will not bring to the court any more cases, is it intended as a friendly gesture, as an evidence of our moral support to nations having greater desire or courage to submit disputes...
...more or less informal manner on subjects in which they have real interest and definite opinions without the necessity for extended research. The present organization of the Debating Union is offered to meet this need. But there are obstacles. The University offers no housing facilities or no financial support, and a merger with the Harvard Union would deprive the Debating Union of its independence and exclude many from the debates. Other colleges have provided quarters for an organization of this kind. Cannot Harvard make some provision for this activity...
...Victories are supposed to win for the college the favor of men who without them would be indifferent or antagonistic. To put it quite bluntly, the college needs the favor and support of men who are not sufficiently interested in its essential values to care for it because of these. It therefore makes appeal to them on other grounds. It hopes that in the fact that one football team has beaten another they will find reason for endowing the scholarship with which the first team is 'connected.' It offers an insult to their intelligence as an appeal to their favor...