Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three...
...discussion, that the present marking system of the university is unjust, and that it ought to be changed. What we wanted, what we expected was a recommendation to the faculty of a plan decreasing the present evils. This would have been an indication of student opinion. To the argument that "students cannot expect to originate a plan that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in an atmosphere of marks," we should answer that one of the purposes for the committee's existence is to stir the faculty up from the sterile atmosphere of extreme conservatism...
...question resulted in 29 votes for the affirmative, and 20 for the negative. The principal disputants on the affirmative were, G. P. Knapp, '87, and H. Page, '88; on the negative, H. B. Hutchins, '86, and I. H. Bronson, Sp. The negative gained the victory on the skill of argument by a vote...
...especially adapted to promote the interests of higher education. Students are led to special subjects with a view peculiar and fitted to each one's nature. Professor Ladd is earnest and sincere in his views, although we may differ with him yet we give him credit for his careful argument...
...undergraduates of Harvard College are making another appeal to the governing bodies for the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers. Their petition presents the argument for the change very forcibly, pointing out that voluntary attendance would necessarily betoken genuine interest in the religious exercises, while the present sense of compulsion produces indifference, if not hostility, to the observance. They also urge with force that such compulsion of undergraduates is inconsistent with the entire freedom conceded to students in the scientific school and in all other departments of the university, while the abolition of compulsory attendance upon Sunday services at church...