Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rational classification of A.B. and S.B. candidates which this reform of the language requirements would provide is a sufficient argument for its adoption. Moreover, it would raise the efficiency of students in both fields, and minimize the disadvantages incident to hurried language instruction in college, by shifting the onus to the preparatory schools where it properly belongs. The general cultural level of the liberal arts students, certainly susceptible of improvement, would profit, and the present premium on superficial language study decline, through the additional literature requirement. The principal objection to such a reform is that it would discourage a large...
...first appearance of the generic evil, Mr. Fruchs conjectures, was in prehistoric times when one tribe conquered another, and there resulted a contract whereby the victors granted the vanquished their lives in exchange for their services. Slavery, then, is the first manifestation of exploitation and, according to the argument, all present day institutions are to be explained in terms...
...impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will...
...Last fortnight famed Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (New York-Germany), aviation chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers., pooh-poohed this project as possible but ''very impractical." His argument: For less money, planes can be built (and lines subsidized) to cross the ocean without artificial stations...
...Choate Club defeated the Lowell Club by a slim margin last night in the Ames Competition semi-final argument at Langdell Hall...