Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another argument against its being made an intercollegiate sport is that the idea of a team would give way to enthusiasm in certain outstanding individuals Too much competition is also bad for the members of the team. A professional boxer knows when he has had enough, but a young college fighter will come back for more again and again. The latter has so much energy that he does not know when to stop...
...mainspring of the attack and such experienced guards as Rudofsky, Samborski, and Black available for the defense, Coach Wachter's worries were confined largely to the center position and the remaining forward berth. Combs and Rauh, Sophomores, contested for center, and the latter finally gained the better of the argument by making vast improvement in the early weeks of the season. Smith, who had starred on the 1926 five, was at first a doubtful quantity on account of his lack of weight. He speedily dispelled all doubts, however, and made such good use of his 130 pounds that he clinched...
...institute a series of patent suits which bring up for consideration the whole problem of broadcasting. But this apparently commendable impulse has been uncharitably criticized as an attempt to again complete control of the new industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that the quickest way to secure governmental regulation of any industry, and thus further public interests, is to foster...
...unmeasurable success of the Debating Union gives rise to the hope that it may definitely success in introducing more spontaneous and informal discussion. The plans for liberalization of membership recently adopted are a first step. With the approach of Presidential elections and the consequent stimulus to argument the times favor a growth of interest; the arrangement of a series of pertinent topics for debate and a program of interesting speakers in perhaps all that is necessary for complete acclimatization of the Oxford institution...
Even though they occur in fields in which major dissentions are usually considered inappropriate, controversy and argument are healthy sings. In the present instance, in spite of being occasion-ally disturbing to those of orthodox convictions, they are most significant in demonstrating that religion is not at all, as has sometimes been feared, a dead issue. That this will be even more apparent this afternoon is assured by Dr. Grant's long established reputation as a speaker of unusual eloquence and force...