Word: argument
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then have the next argument, that the necessary training promotes bodily self-control and a spirit of obedience; which our author answers with a similar conundrum...
...this view that the Rugby game will soon become so well played and popular at Harvard that, except in a few individual instances, it will be unnecessary to call upon either the ball nine or the crew to complete the foot-ball team. We wish to present a final argument in the interests of the warm supporters of foot-ball. Early in the winter the captains of both the University ball club and crew selected such men as they considered fit candidates for positions in their respective nine and boat; they had the opportunity of taking very nearly just whom...
...cannot agree entirely with the writer in this week's Crimson in his argument against the desirability of Freshman crews. Upper-classmen are apt to monopolize the places in the club boats; but the men who rowed on the Freshman crew in their Sophomore year are in capital trim to take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth...
...word against societies. Admission to them, though not the final criterion of character our author would have us believe, is undoubtedly an honor. We do object, however, to his remarks, "A non-society man, as a rule, either chooses or deserves his position." If it is meant as an argument against open elections, it is beside the point...
DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...