Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amendments were suggested: Washington's Jones suggested $1,250,000 to be used chiefly for educational purposes; Georgia's Harris wished to raise the Jones amount to $24,000,000. Virginia's Glass suggested $250,000 to finance Herbert Hoover's proposed investigation committee. Bitter and intricate was the argument revolving about these varied proposals. No decision could be reached...
...desire to be as comprehensive as possible. The CRIMSON has pointed out that "the permanence of a Memorial Church demands that it harmonize with the Harvard of the future." With the probable transposition of the three upper classes to the area below Mt. Auburn Street there is a logical argument for a reconsideration of the site of the new Chapel. What promises to be a new center of Harvard life is certainly a suitable setting for the memorial, and furthermore the inviolability of the Yard familiar to generations of past Harvard men would be preserved...
...clock this evening in the New Court Room in the West Wing of Langdell Hall will be held the final argument of the Ames Competition. The Pollock-Choate Club, represented by S. W. Livingston 3L and H. F. Blumberg 3L, as the complainant, will oppose the Edward Warren Club, represented by Robert K. McConnaughey 3L and F. W. R. Pride 3L, as the respondent...
...judges decide the winners of the case solely on the merit of their argument, based on four points: the structure of the briefs, the value of the cases cited, the oral presentation, and the ability to answer questions propounded by the judges. After the decision has been rendered on the basis outlined above, the judges customarily state what the law is, and what the decision would be were it to be tried in an actual court of justice...
...read it and. although I never did make that statement which was ascribed to me that only eleven people in the world could understand relativity, I really don't believe that there will be more than a handful of people who will take the trouble to follow its argument...