Word: upholder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Morize gave the reporter the following quotation from a speech of President Hadley's, which the Harvard Professor says shows that others beside foreigners uphold his views. "Nine people out of ten believe that the way to train a boy to think is to impart as much knowledge to him as possible. They do not distinguish between the possession of information and the power or habit of thought; or at any rate they assume that if you can secure the former, the latter follows as a matter of course. In no other field of life do we meet this...
...policy is the same as his old policy, only more so. His statement to the Chamber of Deputies announced: 1) The renewed intention of France to remain in the Ruhr and retain her hold on all gages until Germany pays reparations in full; 2) that France is willing to uphold the League of Nations but puts her own security first; 3) that every effort would be made to keep up the policy of economy without inflation of the currency; 4) that France desires an entente with the Allies, but only on Poincaré's terms...
...team which will meet Princeton at Princeton will uphold the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands." This team will consist of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel and D. RK. Barnes, with L. S., King as alternate, and they will speak in the order named...
...Ingersoll," he continued, "and use to go and hear him. I admired him as a man whose strength of conviction would not permit him to remain in a church with whose policies he was not strictly in accord. But these two men remain in parishes which were built to uphold certain doctrines, and deliberately tear them down...
...order to make it easier for the student body to uphold the Honor System at Yale, and to place the handling of violations under its jurisdiction, the Sheffield Student Council has adopted a revised plan for the administration of the Honor System, which will go into effect immediately. Under the new regulations, the Honor System is to be under the direct supervision of the Sheffield Scientific School Council...