Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occasion of his death by the most distinguished philosophical writers of the Old World. If the name of Royce is less conspicuous, this may perhaps be sufficiently accounted for by the more abstruse character of the subjects with which he dealt and of the theses which he upheld. A rare and high personality as well as an extraordinary intellect. Josiah Royce was one of the most potent influences in the domain of high thinking in America
...Pasteur Debate medal was won by Edward Reese Roberts '16, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., last night. He upheld the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the policy of the French in Morocco during the present century has made due allowance for the rights of other European countries." Basing his argument on the paramount interests of France in the country, he showed how successive events have made necessary each step taken by the French, and how Germany, wishing to get control of mining concessions which her merchants had obtained from the Sultan for a nominal price, did everything she could...
Tentative teams have been chosen to represent Princeton in the triangular debate with Yale and the University. The affirmative team will be: J. C. Taylor 1918, C. F. Martin 1916, and W. H. Johnson 1917. The negative will be upheld by: S. D. Sherrerd 1918. W. B. Barnitz 1917, B. B. Atterbury 1916. Alternates have not yet been chosen...
Several articles in this number of the magazine fall below the standard of literary style which the Illustrated has set for itself and frequently upheld. From this fault the editorials are happily free as is also the interesting treatise by Mr. Forest Izard '08. The editorials are vivacious in their treatment of topics which are not dead but robustly alive. The comment on "Sophomore English," for instance, contains a good deal of interesting news as well as some sound thought. Mr. Izard's notes on the D. U. Production of "Henry IV" is learned and perhaps necessarily long...
...debate, the Freshmen were unanimously adjudged the winners. The question was the same in both debates and the Freshmen upheld the affirmative. The order of speakers was 1919--G. A. Brownell, J. T. Noonan, M. Cowley; 1918--J. Davis, W. S. Murphy, L. Brentano...