Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack--it is an ingenuously clear statement of fact. But what he says about college thinkers is dangerous, if not a little absurd. He objects, rightly enough, to sentimental reasoning and arguments not based on facts; but he goes farther and demands that a man should either have a thorough opinion reasoned from complete knowledge, or no opinion at all. If he is to utter a view on the World Court, for example, he must be as wise as the Senate, or he must be silent...
Besides the honor and the prizes awarded the winners, the value of the competition is greatly increased by the actual practice gained in pleading. "The Winner of the Ames Competition" implies in addition to a thorough knowledge of legal theory and established precedent, a sound ability to use that knowledge to best advantage in concrete cases; in short, a good trial lawyer...
...University hockey team started, on Monday, a week of intensive preparation for the contest with Princeton next Saturday, January 13, at the Arena. Having had a thorough rest since the exceptionally strenuous game with Toronto University a week ago, the squad is in excellent condition with the exception of E. M. Beals Jr. '25, whose cut ankle is still bothering him considerably. From all present indications, however, he will be back in the line-up against the Orange and Black, and should be able to play the major part of the contest. This should materially strengthen the team, for, with...
...cancer". The money will be applied to the support of important research work being carried on for this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation, and especially of the high-power X-ray machine designed by Professor William Duane and installed in the new laboratory for the treatment of cancer cases...
...publication is a new departure in the records of Harvard athletics because it is so much more thorough than anything that has ever before been attempted...