Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shut off. The fever may be borne by water or milk; but in the large cities the water supplies seem to have been well guarded, the milk supplies too for the most part. Attributing the occasional welling up of typhoid fever to weather conditions seems a weak although favorite argument. On this point study over long periods is necessary. In fact, epidemiologists know they face an intricate problem...
...Strauss opening the Princeton side of the argument, demonstrated the broadening value of education and said that many of the evils referred to came from a lack of instruction...
Division A--General session: The hypothesis of emergent evolution, its meaning and the present state of the argument concerning it. Section 1, Physics and metaphysics, with special reference to the problem of time; Section 2, philosophy of religion, with special reference to mysticism in the East and the West; Section 3, philosophy of mind, with special reference to the nature of the community between minds; Section 4, open session with the following topics suggested; relation of biology and metaphysics, realism and idealism, value and existence, the concept of personality...
...Princeton. The debate, which will be decided largely on the merits of oratory, hinges on the resolution: "That education is the curse of the present age." The University team, consisting of E. C. Sibley '28, Barrett Williams '28, and D. W. Chapman '27, will uphold the affirmative in the argument...
Then, as if knowing his words were vain, he seemed to give up argument and to abandon himself to an emotional plea for his pet bill. He spoke of his undeveloped, unappreciated, unknown country...