Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that your editorial on "Communist Calm" yesterday hardly deserves refutation, and the empty sophistry of it should not be dignified by counter-argument. It is unfortunate that the only organ for expressing undergraduate sentiment on current affairs should be no more liberal or thoughtful in its attitude to tremendous problems than the CRIMSON in such editorials as this...
...novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what...
With 187 Congressmen on record as Wet (TIME, March 21) and the nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...
Outwitting the Yale speakers at every turn of the argument last night two Harvard teams, one speaking in Lowell House, the other in New Haven, won one of the most inspiring forensic victories over Yale since the history of these intercollegiate debates. The six judges who presided over the arguments gave their solid and unanimous vote to the Crimson speakers, both at home and abroad...
Harvard's argument against the nomination of Hoover, as expressed by A. E. Phillips '34, Leo Srole '33, and D. M. Sullivan '32 in Lowell House last night, was the thesis of Hoover's inability to keep his campaign pledges, and his general lack of qualifications for the position. The Blue speakers dwelled on the courage he has shown in face of unusually difficult circumstances...