Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan of cross-examination of the speakers by the opposition after the argument, has been adopted by the Council, but will not be tested until the Choate debate on March 3. This plan was used by the Varsity debaters against Smith last spring...
...basis for the whole argument appeared in the columns of the Chicago Tribune, which stated that Harvard's attempt to procure Wesley Fisher as basketball coach and assistant football coach was a timely gesture. It commented further that Harvard had changed its mind a few years ago about being more content to have a football team of Beacon Hill blood than one of South Boston Irish, and lauded this offer to Fisher as an extension of a slowly growing policy to recognize people other than New Englanders. It stated that this particular instance of the policy indicated perhaps that Harvard...
...whole argument boils down to the most universal dispute among boys at bearding school--that of the superiority of their home city. Of course there is no criterion for a city. It might be said, however, that Boston is proud of its still observed customs of curtseying patronesses, strictly chaperoned sub-debs, of its absurd blue laws (or else why does it not change them?), and the like. Fortunately, Chicago is young. It is systematically planned. Unbound by braking customs, it is not afraid to progress. Indeed, it has advanced in great strides. Walter J. Watson...
...indiscriminate ransacking of rooms by undergraduates deserves condemnation from every thinking man. It is irresponsible. It is a public nuisance. It is the precise denial of every customary concept of dignity and privacy. Pragmatically, it becomes futile, once its operation becomes known. Its use is a strong argument for a close unified control over the management of House libraries...
During the Great War there were many examples of citizens who were conscientious objectors and were not forced to fight as long as they helped the cause in some way. Though this argument has little force from a strictly legal point of view, it carries considerable weight with a thinking public. To many people, moreover, it is not very clear why this country should stand behind a legal distinction which the unscrupulous find no difficulty in avoiding and which excludes from citizenship men like Macintosh and Klassen who are excellently qualified in every other respect...