Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conceivably there are three possible reactions to this state of affairs. "As good a criterion as any other" might be the observation of the cynic, or "Another argument for good teams," that of the pragmatist. But to the serious and thoughtful observer, these facts cannot fail to bring a renewed appreciation of the extent to which the distorted sense of values induced by the present overemphasis of football, has seeped into American academic life...
Whatever the merits of this entertaining dispute over the state of English letters, it is not to be denied that the American makes a telling point in his parting shot, as he deftly turns the argument toward the independence and importance of the literature of his own country: "The plain fact is that the Republic has cut the painter and has begun to go it alone. There is, no doubt, a wrench. It is, I suppose, painful. But I don't know anything that is to be done about...
...family of a puisne judge. There he learned to put on style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony. Jezebel, though coy, finally decided: "I no mind livin' wid yo' here in dis house. But de marryin...
...CRIMSON has already pointed out in previous editorials that this financial argument is the final recourse of all who defend the present status of football. If that status is pernicious, as the CRIMSON believes, then the only way to bring about permanent readjustment is to relieve other sports of financial dependence upon football. This implies an athletic endowment. Major Moore in an interview with the press last week, decried this suggestion. If, however, athletics have a legitimate place in college education, and the CRIMSON is convinced that they have, it should be no more impossible to raise an endowment...
...from the two capacity games now played annually in the Stadium that I am utterly unable to comprehend the process of reasoning followed by the CRIMSON in arriving at the conclusion that the building of more football seats would delay the provision of athletic opportunities for all. Such an argument, to quote Mr. Jones of Yale, is nothing less than "ridiculous...