Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long theme may be substituted for the separate themes V and VI, provided that the length of the long theme is not less than ten pages. The subject will be: An Exposition, and an Argument based on this exposition. The theme will be due on April...
...long theme may be substituted for the separate themes V and VI, provided that the length of the long theme is not less than ten pages. The subject will be: An Exposition and an Argument based on this exposition. The theme will be due on April...
...support of the working classes." The vote on the merits of the question stood, affirmative, 31: negative, 10. The principal disputants were: affirmative, A. T. Perkins, '87, and E. E. Shoemaker, '89; negative, N. F. Hesseltine, 88, and G. A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants resulted in favor of the negative, 35 votes...
...debate as a whole was very interesting, and the spirit with which the labor problem was discussed shows that Harvard men are not entirely indifferent to the cause of the laboring man. The general trend of the argument was that the Knights of Labor would not promote the welfare of the working classes; that on the concentration of so much power in the hands of men not thoroughly versed in economic science would be a perpetual menace to our free institution...
...Clymer lectured yesterday afternoon to the juniors and sophomores. He said that junior theme 5 would be an exposition, theme 6 an argument, but that themes 5 and 6 could be handed in together as one connected piece of work. This can also be done with sophomore themes 10 and 11; but theme 9 must be an exposition alone...