Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mystery of mysteries of college life, - one of those things which, as Lord Dundreary would say, "no fellow can understand." In vain we seek of the Faculty, of proctors and instructors, of graduates and undergraduates, for an exposition of the principles of this mysterious institutions, which hear without argument, judges in secret, and from whose decision there is no appeal; an institution unmoved by entreaty, callous to criticism, and stoically indifferent amidst the ruin it has wrought. It is not my present intention to censure this system per se, but to call especial attention to the unreasonable delay in arriving...
...that persons who are careful never to express disapprobation at foolish or vicious acts or speeches should imagine that it cannot be done in a gentlemanly way. They assume that it is necessary to "blurt out" abusive censure, forgetting that censure is often clearly expressed simply by silence. Their argument seems to be that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk, unless...
...says that "Ossip" "argues that `the popularity which the independent man professes to scorn is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly men.'" No argument was used. It was simply a statement, and one that "G. E." declines to admit, because he does not look upon popular men as manly...
...know where they went, but after I had waited five minutes, they appeared, -Sap earnestly engaged in defending Virgil from charges of plagiarism made by Jack. So much wrapped up was he in his argument that he did not notice that I paid for him, and that Jack suppressed the programme which the boy at the door would have given...
...said often that Harvard no longer produces literary men. While we do not assent to this sweeping proposition, we do see, in the recent choice of subjects for the next Commencement exercises, an argument in favor of the assertion. Of the nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that...