Word: upholder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...
...Freshman basketball team will attempt to uphold its record of victories when it faces the Springfield College first-year men at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Freshman Gymnasium. J. A. Reed is still out of the line-up although there is a chance that he may be able to play within two weeks; his place will be taken by Endicott...
...executive committee of the Harvard Debating Union which met later in the evening, decided that the next debate would be held on Thursday evening, January 18. The question is the Jones Ship Subsidy, a bill now before Congress. The Conservatives will uphold the passage of the bill, and the Progressives will op- pose it. After much discussion, it was decided to try a new method of voting. The vote of the meeting will be taken twice--once before and again after the debate. The second vote will be conclusive. The purpose is to discover how much opinions on the subject...
...open to all members of the University, and will take place next Thursday evening, December 14, in the Trophy Room of the Union. A member of the Faculty will preside. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, that the United, States recognize Soviet Russia immediately". The Progressives will uphold the affirmative of this proposition and the Conservatives the negative. Each wing is planning to have two prepared speakers who will talk for seven minutes each. Afterwards members of the two clubs and of the audience will speak from the floor. The meeting will close with a vote by all present...
...efforts of the central board of officials to uphold the fearless administration of the rules and the maintenance of the highest standards of sportsmanship are endorsed heartily...