Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communication published this morning in regard to the plan of work now in vogue in History 13, shows a new side of this already much discussed subject. Heretofore we have heard of nothing but complaints. but now a champion comes to defend. Whoever is dissatisfied with what he is doing in History 13, and desires a new plan adopted had better read our correspondent's letter and make his decision once more. The work in History 13, no doubt, looks appalling to a man who has never seen anything like it before, but a little practice will enable...
...best, astonishing to strangers, morally revolting to those reared under the influence of Puritanism and yet withal far less harmful than one could at first sight believe. Germans view it with indulgence and make no such serious matter of it as Americans assuredly would. I have no wish to defend it; but it is a permanent institution of the fatherland, and laughable or solemn, defensible or indefensible, it is worthy of inspection...
...that marks a Harvard student as a gentleman, we call on the would be incendiaries to desist from such puerile extravagances as the bonfire last built in front of University. If something must be burned, let the burning be, at least, outside of the yard. No one can surely defend a practice which has been repeatedly declared not only dangerous to the safety of college property, but also ruinous to the insurance value of the buildings. Common sense is of value, even during moments of great enthusiasm...
...defend such dissertation before the faculty...
...them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning as a reason for making attendance at prayers compulsory the only reason that would have had any weight with those who established these prayers in the beginning - namely, that public prayer is the only seemly...