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...University debating team will meet the Syracuse representatives this evening at the Auditorium at Albany when they uphold the affirmative of the question "Resolved. That the United States should Cancel in full the war debts of the Allied Powers...
...Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction? But when everyone except the culprits themselves is allowed to make suggestions, this task is becoming increasingly...
...heavy burden to carry. After a lapse of fourteen years we are resuming, more or less as novices, a game that has been played at Yale much more regularly, and is recognized at many other colleges on a par with the major sports. The players must not only uphold Harvard's athletic prowess over an old rival; they have the added tasks of justifying their existence as a minor sport and of arousing the interest and support--somewhat lacking now--which will be the basis for future successful teams. A victory will help materially in bringing the desired results...
...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...