Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jones '00, the last speaker for Princeton, said that the negative did not undertake to defend any actions of the present war, but did claim that England's interference was not justifiable. The policy of England in South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
...scheme proposed would further sub-divide and dissipate activity in debating and would thus destroy the end at which it aimed...
...every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward athletic reform...
...urging higher prices; they merely wished steadier prices. The question was not of the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism, but was solely as to whether the United States should at once and definitively adopt the single gold standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause an entire overturn in politics and finance, inevitably leading to the total shattering...
...Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard as an institution, without having previously determined by an accurate vote that they have convinced a fair sized minority of us that it should be abolished. It seems not to be asking too much, therefore, that in this instance they permit a referendum to the Seniors...