Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail to give a student a sufficiently up-to-date knowledge of a tongue. All such a course does is teach grammar, prescribe a number of books, and include some conversation in the daily lesson. Of course, the grammar taught is standard and the books read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose and poetry is, in spite of its sometimes artificial form...
...story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind him as its sole ruler. And if I read anything into Mr. Hitler's past, it primarily that Mr. Hitler has learned well the requisites of Dictatorship. The permanence...
...George" Lansbury is being waged by brisk and daring Sir Stafford Cripps, an avowed disciple in Britain of the methods of President Roosevelt. When the President in effect tore up the gold clause in U. S. obligations, Sir Stafford turned the implications of this move into a popular argument that the Empire should repudiate its War debt to the U. S. ''President Roosevelt is a remarkable man!" cried Sir Stafford. "The United States has given us a lead regarding the way when a country is in financial difficulties it can get out of them." As a matter...
...Press, numerous coaches voiced the wish to see the return of the "free ball" to the rules. Said Columbia's Coach Lou Little: "Let the boys run with a loose ball. That's the instinctive, the natural thing to do. ... There was a lot of argument that inferior teams used to grab fumbles and score winning touchdowns for lucky victories. I think that's silly. . . . The game is 60 minutes long. If you're winning for 55 minutes, get careless, fumble, lose in the last five, that's your tough luck...
This "right," as newspapermen know full well, is one of the holies. It is asserted with high-flown argument of altruistic bend; it is strictly defended. First of all, one is told, H. A. A. assigns the Harvard numbers; H. A. A. therefore has the "right" to them. And if this suffices not, there is the nice financial syllogism. The H. A. A. News makes a neat profit,--1930-31 $2289.75, 1931-32 $11,201.93,--and thus enables Harvard men to have more athletic facilities. What alone makes the H. A. A. News valuable to advertisers and buyers...