Word: upholder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University 1925 debaters, G. L. Black, M. H. Thiessen, P. W. Williams, and J. L. Swayze Jr., will uphold the affirmative...
...Surely the mere satisfaction of exposing the sins of their weaker brothers is not enough to account for it. Some other impelling force has more than once led the prohibition officers to pose as internal revenue collectors and thus obtain evidence of violations. In their eagerness to uphold the dignity of the eighteenth amendment, they cheerfully break every other law with a clear conscience. Yet why they should take prohibition enforcement so much to heart, is one of the enigmas of our commonwealth...
...wording of the subject for the Freshman Triangular debate with Yale and Princeton to be held April 15, has just been announced. It is as follows: "Resolved: That it is for the Best Interests of the Irish People That They Should Be Granted Dominion Home Rule." The Freshmen will uphold the affirmative side of the question against Princeton at Cambridge, while the negative will debate at Yale. Nine Freshmen have been retained after the preliminary trials and are being coached by the members of the University team...
...tradition at Yale for Senior classes to vote Phi Beta Kappa the most desirable attainment for which undergraduates may compete. The failure of last year's Senior class to vote it so created almost as great consternation among the orthodox as had the failure of their immediate predecessors to uphold the desirability of compulsory chapel. But of those who each year recorded their vote for the supremacy of Phi Beta Kappa, how many, when confronted with the choice between curriculum and extra-curriculum earlier in their college careers, actually chose the former? It isn't necessary to quote statistics...
...first event of the present season will be a triangular debate with Bates and Colgate to be held on January 15. The University will uphold the affirmative against Bates at Lewiston, Maine, and the negative against Colgate at Hamilton, New York. The subject for this debate is the same as will be used in the trials next week...