Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme X., "An Exposition," and Theme XI., "An Argument," will be due on April 3 and April 24, respectively...
...pleasure of the writer, Themes X. and XI. may be combined in one theme of at least TEN pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument, to be handed in on April...
...pleasure of the writer, Themes X. and XI. may be combined in one theme of at least TEN pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument, to be handed in on April...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would...
...other hand there are many things to be urged in favor of semiannual examinations. The writer of your communication bases his whole argument on the fact that a change of system would be of benefit to those who "come to college simply to have a good time." Now, I contend that the regulations of college should be shaped so as to benefit not those who come here to loaf, but those who come here to study, if the interests of the two classes of men are at variance...