Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparent triviality, the moral argument against it is extremely important, whereas hand-organs and old begging women are the ephemeral and trifling evils of every society. The wiser men pass these young beggars scornfully by, push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme...
...argument brought once more into the national arena a figure once prominent there, for one of the arguers of the. State's case in the support of the law was George E. Chamberlain...
Nine grave Justices lent their ears to the argument for and against the school law of the State of Oregon. Oregon has a law requiring all children between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend the public schools. This, of course, is equivalent to the suppression of all private and parochial schools and military academies devoted to primary education. Against the law are aligned the two plaintiffs, 1) the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary and 2) the Hill Military Academy, backed by the North Pacific Union of Seventh Day Adventists, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary...
...argument of the parochial and private schools is that the law was an invasion of constitutional rights, religious and otherwise. The State's argument is that the law was a legitimate extension of the State police power of compelling attendance at school. The law had been declared unconstitutional by a lower court and was carried to a higher court on the State's appeal...
...Americans, our forefathers and our peers have done in bring the semitics here, we, also as Americans, must submit is done and, we had better make the best of it--and the best is education, not suppression of native facilities that must possess some latent good. But away with argument. they're here, in Harvard, and nobody's going to put them out, not even supposing that it were desired to put them out. They are part of our cosmopolitan structure, our democratic structure. If you please. They have some with evolution and other things and they'll stay, with...