Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five minutes and was intensely interesting. The lecturer said that he wished me to take religion on a firm basis and not make it an emotional matter. Such religion does not last. If the grand religion of Christ is put before men in the right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled first. Our minds must be satisfied. Man is a born questioner, he cannot help doubting. And the whole world...
...Princeton. Being well aware of the gentleman's thorough knowledge of the game as well as of his excellent powers of judgment in such matters, the college has looked forward to the publication of the article with eager delight and with a hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country in perverting the real nature of the game besides denouncing it as being too brutal and rough, as Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented...
...continue urge that it gives vent to a feeling that otherwise would find an outlet in hazing; that it serves to break the ice, to some extent, between the freshmen and the upper classmen; and furthermore, that it is a time honored institution, and that that should be argument enough for its continuance...
That "Bloody Monday" is an institution handed down year after year, and that therefore it should be continued, is no argument in its favor at all. The custom is essentially bad; every influence of it is bad; and the fact that it is bad, whether it be time-honored or not, is reason enough that it be abolished...
...before the minds of Harvard students in order that its recurrence may be prevented. It will be urged, no doubt, that our nine receives the same treatment, and that every other nine is in the same position, when defeated on a field away from home. But is this any argument why this nuisance should not be done away with, or why Harvard should not take the first step in abolishing a proceeding that is without doubt a factor in the much debated ill-feeling in college base-ball...