Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with new titles, in which the discriminations are large units instead of small ones. Why do they stop with three or four divisions? Why not go a step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still remains. They might as well ask the instructor to mark the books with a red pencil instead of a blue one. It would lighten the weight...
...give elsewhere that very threadbare argument about small colleges. President Anderson, of Rochester University, which is almost unknown, says that Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what...
...vote on the merits of the question resulted in, affirmative, 70 votes; negative, 13. E. B. Harvey, '88, opened for the affirmative, and J. J. Shaughnessy, L. S., for the negative, followed by M. C. Hobbs, L. S., affirmative, E. B. Chenoweth, '88, negative. The victory in skill of argument was gained by the affirmative by a vote...
...first place student correspondents are more fond of argument than criticism. A single criticism of faculty or studies brings out a dozen defenders. The editorial department of a college paper must be critical at times, but, as the reflection of college sentiment, it is as often deprecatory of student shortcomings as of faculty haughtiness. That faculties dislike to be criticised is not true in the main, we think. No body of men like fault-finding; but good honest criticism, when well meant and of a "remedial" character must meet with respect anywhere...
...reviewer continues: "Professor Laughlin's work is an extremely pains taking collection and methodical arrangement of all the facts needed by the student, the statesman, or the editor to fit him for taking part in this battle. Along with the collection of material we have a clear and dispassionate argument, not of the controversial sort, maintaining the views held by nearly all economists of the present day on the subject of monetary standards...