Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Griffin opened the argument for the affirmative. The first object of the Republican party, said he, is to carry the national elections in 1888, and this can be done with the greatest certainty by nominating James G. Blaine for President. (Applause.) The speaker then traced the honorable course of Mr. Blaine in the Maine legislature during the war, and his career afterwards in the House of Representatives where he was three times elected speaker. He was prominently connected with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. His popularity with the Republican party was evinced...
Theme X. will be due on Tuesday, April 5. Subject: An Exposition. Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument. For themes X. and XI. may be substituted a Double Theme, of not less than ten pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument. The Double Theme will be due on Tuesday, April...
Your contributor says that different teams have represented us in different contests. They may have had a change in number 3 or 2, but they have been virtually the same, and the '88 man in question has pulled on them all. As to his argument concerning the right of the '87 men to pull in the class boat this year, it may be said that they are no longer 'Varsity men, and hence do not come under the rule respecting the latter. In the case of '88's coxswain, I do not get the drift of his very lucid argument...
...been training together. The university crew cannot well join the class crews, if they would. And in the case of the coxswain, it is quite well known that when that vote was passed last fall that there was somewhat of a misundering, and that there is still. Such an argument seems to apply but poorly to the tug-of-war question...
Theme X. will be due on Tuesday, April 5. Subject: An Exposition. Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument. For themes X. and XI. may be substituted a Double Theme, of not less than ten pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument. The Double Theme will be due on Tuesday, April...