Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago University has recently had a hot argument of a rather unusual sort. Students in the psychology department, and others, have urged that the university should offer a course in the Psychology of Love. A correspondent to the Daily Maroon, with no little eloquence, demands; "Why are teachers silent on the psychology of love? Why is discussion so limited? Probably because the problems of love are felt to be unsolvable...
...bill in equity came up on demurrer and involved the question of whether the plaintiff could get specific performance of a contract to convey land, in which it was stipulated that time should be the essential factor. The decision was given on the presentation of the argument rather than the law involved...
Once this hostility is aroused it can be very successfully expressed as is shown in the present instance. An accidentally misplaced comma caused weeks of argument on Article X of the Versailles treaty. There is even less difficulty in stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised...
There is but one thing better than destroying an ideal, and that is making one. The assassination of the "Custer" legend is one of the best. In spite of the inconsistencies of the argument, we who dislike the sentimental and saccrime pretensions of patriotism, become overjoyed at this ruthless iconoclasm of tradition's pet. Yet had it better not have lived? Was it not a tale to fire small boys' imagination? Ideals are so easily dispelled. Whenever some hardy spirit tries to plant one in CRIMSON'S fertile rows, a savage hand plucks the puny thing from the ground...
...correspondent also claims that those who are in charge of and connected with this "School" get an opportunity to exercise a managerial ability. He gives it a sort of blessedness by saying it is run by students for the students. His first argument, that it gives an opportunity for training, is, I think, more poetic than sound. It would be just as plausible to advocate war in order to whip a few generals into shape. But it may be I am wrong on this head it may be that the note taking and purveying is a business of great proportions...