Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not mar this occasion by any argument, explanatory or defensive, in regard to the matter that has clouded my days and shadowed my nights. I come neither asking forgiveness nor bowed down with shame; but proudly to proclaim to you that I have done no wrong nor aught that merits rebuke from you, my dearest friends...
Said Senator Glass of Virginia: can't see the force of the argument that I am to take the money of the 1,069,000 farmers of Virginia to enable 67,000 farmers of one of these states to enter into competition with those of Virginia...
Carl Kopf was the final speaker for the affirmative. After reviewing his colleagues' argument, he pointed out that we are a progressive race, and that the single standard of scholastic attainments as a requirement for admission was outgrown. "Do you not feel that a student who gives a portion of his time to activities such as debating and journalism should be accorded due consideration if his grades were a bit lower than those of another candidate who concentrated on studies alone?" he said. "I advocate no universal plan but let each college work out its own individual plan...
...closing speaker, P. W. Williams '25, was easily the most brilliant speaker of the evening. In replying to the argument of the preceding speaker that a test for character was also an essential requisite for admission to college. Williams said, "By character they mean application, industry, and effort. The examination system is the best test of character as it is properly defined for it requires these essential qualities. By intelligence tests they attempt to estimate a candidate's promise, but in view of the fact that a man's character does not change in a day, the best test...
Princeton, N. J., March 21.--Yale, supporting the affirmative, defeated Princeton by a 3 to 0 vote of the judges in the triangular debate here tonight. Yale based its argument on the need of personal interviews and mental tests in selecting candidates for admission, while Princeton declared that other than scholastic tests are impractical and that tradition backs the old examinations...