Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is yet another argument for a compulsory athletic levy on all Harvard undergraduates. Last Spring President Conant in his plan for putting the major sports on a self-supporting basis, stated that only 4% of the undergraduates used the facilities of lacrosse, fencing, golf, soccer, wrestling, boxing and cross-country. Unfortunately this figure was arrived at by counting the number of people on the Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman first teams of each sport, thus leaving out all those men who had initially tried out for a team or who later formed second, third and scrub teams which played...
...decision was returned in the contest, which was on the question of government control of commerce and industry within the national boundaries. Emphasizing the political side of the argument, Duggan maintained that too much concentration of power in the hands of the federal government is a bad thing for the country, and that the "federal equilibrium" should be preserved...
Richard W. Sullivan '38, the other Crimson speaker, advanced the argument of the inflexibility of Congress in legislation and of its lack of adaptability to individual cases...
Representative C. (for Charles) Jasper Bell of Kansas City made the chief argument for the investigation. Said he: "The late years of depression . . . have been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
...feel certain that both the Athletic and Administrative authorities here favor the Princetonian proposition if change there must be. In addition there is strong argument on the medical side that three weeks of pre-season training is sufficient...