Word: contend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ballantine opened the debate for Harvard. We of the negative, he said, stand for the protection of life and property as strongly as do the affirmative. But we contend that the means for suppressing violence are already adequate, and that the new power which the affirmative propose to grant to the President would be both unnecessary and undesirable. As the law now stands the President has absolute power to put down all violence which infringes national law, and the States have power to suppress violence infringing State law alone, not only by calling out State troops, but by calling upon...
Daniels was the second speaker for the negative. To justify the radical and far-reaching departure they are proposing, the affirmative, he said, must show an overwhelming necessity. The negative contend that they cannot show such a necessity because the existing means of suppressing domestic violence have proved fully adequate to the situation. There are at present three methods of suppressing domestic violence: first, the State may suppress the violence with its own forces; secondly, the State, if unable alone to restore order, may call upon the federal government for assistance; thirdly, when the violence immediately threatens the sovereignty...
...been said that our boys ought to have as much endurance and stamina as those in England, who take part in the Oxford-Cambridge races. I certainly hope they have as much, but that is not the point. What I contend is that our boys are called upon to bear, not merely a strain equal to that of the Oxford-Cambridge contest, and of the preparation for it, but a greater one. Greater because, as I have previously pointed out, of the difference in weather conditions during the contest, and during the period of preparation for it, because...
...wish to hurt or in any way detract from the value of our annual race with Yale and am entirely willing to take the present risk of four miles, if a test of that length can be proved necessary for the best results. What I contend is, that a four mile test is not necessary, that we will lose by the change nothing of good which we now have, and that therefore, as I have today seen Dr. Brooks quoted, three miles will be a "desirable substitute," desirable because there is less danger...
...view into four classes: The first, those who are unaffected by temptation and whose lives are under the control of a superior being; the second, those who recognize evil, but fight with all that is in them to overcome it; the third those who drift about and do not contend with evil, either through thoughtlessness or because they have been defeated; and the last class, those who, overcome by temptation, are going to places in their moral and perhaps their physical nature. The question to be solved then is, how can those in the last three classes gain entrance into...