Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that it may prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause in the law which gives them effect, is not in question. Since the law does exist, some way around it must be found; this could be taken care of by such an expedient as the issuance from...
...loose from the husband, why not let them go back to their families? Or get out, if their poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites out to root for themselves...
...point, that the sale of outlines infringes on the rights of authors, is not only a justifiable one, but opens the sole practicable line of attack against the tutoring bureaus. The argument, however, remains justifiable only so long as the books assigned in courses remain suitable. This they have not altogether been: in some cases the books recommended or required in various fields are ridiculously expensive; in other cases, they are wretchedly written, far too long, and almost demand an auxiliary outline in order successfully to be utilized. When such conditions arise, the bureaus are almost justified, in their claims...
...subversive to the aims of the higher education; the policy of Harvard, however, and of other large universities, has been to allow the undergraduate to decide for himself just how much he will put into his work, so long as his grades are reasonably good. Dean Hanford's argument against the methods of the Bureau is, in this case, a well-founded one, from a theoretical standpoint; from the point of view of practice, it is useless, for even if the court in this particular instance should be swayed by it, the tutoring establishments will continue their ways along other...
...Senate's No. 1 anti-inflationist, Senator Reed retorted hotly to the Thomas argument...