Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...debating is an activity belonging solely to the College. Only undergraduates have been elegible for the team; and there has been an unprecedented response in the number of undergraduate candidates. Debating is not endowed; nor does it, like minor athletics, receive a subsidy for its maintenance. But besides financial support, a debating team, more than any other, needs the presence of a large and responsive audience to bring out its best, for it is to the audience that it aims to appeal...
Students will canvass the Senior dormitories Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Let every one buy at least one quarter ticket to support the debating teams that they may add one more to our long list of victories, eighteen over Yale and twelve over Princeton. ROBERT J. WHITE...
...monthly magazine, in holding a pianoforte concert in the New Music Building Friday. To create and foster an interest in good music, is the first duty of the Musical Review. Accordingly the concert, which is to be given by Mr. George Copeland, a noted pianist, should receive general support. By attending the concert, men in the University will show their approval of the Musical Review's policy, and will in addition enjoy an evening of good music...
...nearly as I can gather, the militarists' arguments in support of that premise are somewhat as follows: Man has always fought; therefore he will always continue to fight. It is true that the world is advancing, but--look at Europe. (Here the pacifists may be pardoned for a reference to the United States and Canada). All law and order, all national and international equilibrium, are ultimately based upon arms, proceeds Mr. Militarist. One enthusiastic "Amateur Soldier" even suggests that government is merely a matter of brute force. Others are frequently heard to say that though perhaps force is not always...
...whole problem is as to just what will be the influence of the military camps on those who must be expected to educate the voter and supply the diplomatists. Fortunately the correspondents have themselves indirectly answered this question for us. No one can read the letters of those who support the camps or have actually been to them without being convinced as to just what their contributions will be for the settlement of international problems. The question of the military camps is not one of aggressive militarism; it is one of making a beginning towards a consistent policy which...