Word: sides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior Wranglers held their last debate before the mid-years last night on the subject: "Resolved, That there should be a State Theatrical Censorship." Seasongood's side supported the affirmative and Crane's side the negative which won. The chief speakers for the negative side were E. Mayer and R. D. Crane. H. A. Yeomans opened and closed the argument for the affirmative. The principle feature of the speaking was the strength of rebutta...
...their country had been less valuable and had been less in the way of dominion from Cape to Cairo, we should have heard less about their ignorance and conservatism. The story is as old as Naboth's vineyard. The contest is at bottom one for empire on the one side for independence on the other. The disproportion of resources between the two contestants reminds one of the Persians and Greeks. Our own ancestors had infinitely smaller odds to face when they rose in revolt. The doctrine that we should sympathize with a nation, regardless of the rights of any dispute...
...Britain's unwillingness for a peaceable settlement when a fair proposal was made shows this, as does the continual massing of troops on the Boers' borders. The true inwardness of the matter is not and can not be known for some time, but right seems to be on the side of the Boers. At least the sight of a nation leaving all and going in a body to the front to fight for their homes ought to inspire the admiration of a republic like America and compel it to suspend its judgment...
...will face on College and Grove streets. $250,000 has already been subscribed for these buildings and it is hoped that the alumni will subscribe the remaining $500,000 necessary in time for the buildings to be erected by 1901, the bicentennial year. On the High street side of the quadrangle it is proposed to build a university club at some future time. The plans of Carrere and Hastings of New York for the auditorium and dining hall have been approved, but have not been adopted in detail...