Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These methods such as psychological and intelligence tests would tend to blurr and obscure the whole system of scholastic education. What would be the result? The secondary schools would immediately see the utter folly of trying to train pupils to pass other than scholastic tests." Arnold summed up his argument admirably when he said: "We believe in selecting for colleges those men who have proved to be intellectual leaders in the secondary schools...
...should be less than candid with you, however, if I did not say that in my judgment the strongest argument that has been used in the United States in support of immediate independence of the Philippines is not the argument that it would benefit the Filipinos, but that it would be of advantage to the United States...
...argument is that "if French credit is entirely ruined, France will be brought to her knees," the Ruhr will be evacuated, Germany will recover, French hatred and arrogance will disappear, Germany will be safe in peace...
...This argument is set forth in a circular to American Lutherans issued by a Delaware corporation with offices in Manhattan. The circular states: "Thousands of our brethren in the faith have lost all hope; thousands have left the fold of the Church. Germany is being crushed by a nation of another faith. Shall Lutheranism be crushed in the land where it was born? We have an effective weapon to prevent this...
Assuming for the sake of argument that the theory presented by able scientists is false, that is that children in their social growth represent the successive stages through which man has passed to reach his present state of civilization-it must be remembered that this masculine Cassandra is both an author and a journalist, which might induce him to take as pleasantly gloomy an outlook as possible on the future of this great republic. If the age of accountability is placed at twelve, as it usually is, and many of the children examined were only ten or eleven...