Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student, and there follows a discussion of the reading done since the last conference. This discussion is the meat of the tutorial work. The student is expected not only to outline but to criticise, the tutor meets the criticism not with contradiction but with counter-criticism and with argument, and the "conference" ends a literary conversation, in which for the moment the distinction between instructor and instructed has dropped away...
...Wall Street Journal, Judge Gary's argument for limiting dividends to 7% was rebutted. The Journal pointed out that the Steel Corporation now showed a total investment of $2,126,000,000, on which 1924 earnings were about 5%. The investment behind the stock amounted to $1,586,000.000, on which payments to stockholders amounted to 3.8%. "If," argued the Wall Street Journal, "the Corporation, in a year or more than average earnings, cannot make 5% on its investment, why continue adding to that investment...
...University team, consisting of E. J. Metzdorf '26, F. J. Otis '27, and I. J. Fain '27, upheld the affirmative and based the main argument for abolishing capital punishment on the barbarous civilization which requires an eye for an eye and a death for a death. Metzdorf traced the evolution of punishment from the days when death was administered for all crimes to the present, when it is imposed for only three. He dwelt on these three, murder, treason and rape, with great forces showing how it is merely vengeance which calls for the death of the offender...
...baptism under the old Indian name of Kanawha will give the people an opportunity to tell all about the virtues of the State while the new name is being learned. Then they can drift along on that tide of fame, and when it subsides Senator Chilton's argument will still hold and they can have another christening, if it should be necessary...
...Argument ceased, pending consultation of the three oracles...