Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University debaters will meet the team representing the National Union of English Students tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in the fifth international debate between Harvard and English teams. The University will uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising pacifism...
...Debating Union for the year, two experienced speakers and two undergraduates will argue. The latter have not yet been announced; the former will be Haya de a Torre, a South American graduate of Oxford who has spoken widely in England and in the United States who will uphold the affirmative, and J. P. Baxter, History Tutor and instructor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, who will support the negative. After the four speakers have finished, the floor will be open to all who may wish to speak...
Haya de la Torre, a South American who has spoken a good deal in England and in the United States on South American subjects, will uphold the affirmative and J. P. Baxter, history tutor and Instructor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, will support the negative. After the four speakers have finished, the floor will be open to all present...
...question, "Resolved: That the only effective attitude towards war is an uncompromising pacifism." Both sides of the question will be investigated in this way. When the final six are chosen, they will work intensively on the affirmative side of the question, which the Harvard team is to uphold...
...undergraduates in good standing are eligible for the team, which will uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life...