Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powers of heaven deliver us from contact with it! If to gain the championship in foot-ball, in base-ball, or in anything, we must sacrifice the benefits of an elective system like ours, let us never contend for that much coveted prize. This is, we think, the weakest argument that has ever been advanced against the elective system. But we are glad to see that the Record has not the support of the other papers of the college...
...growth. The demands for admission to our colleges cover in regard to classical requirements as much, possibly, as our fathers had, and more than our grandfathers had, when they graduated from college. The writer cites the great growth of Harvard since the adoption of the elective system as an argument in favor of its general adoption among the other leading colleges of the country. Mr. Curtis then unfolds a plan by which the highest aims in education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme VI. will be due on Thursday, April 30, Subject: Argument...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme VI will be an Argument. The synopsis will be returned on Thursday, April 29, from 2 to 4.30 o'clock, as follows: Abbott to Pearl in Sever 5; the rest of the class in Sever 1. The theme will be due on Thursday...
...better for students to go right from the high school or the academy to the professional school? or do students gain sufficiently to pay for the time, and expense by taking the college course and getting the college training? Here, too, it would seem that the balance of argument must be on the side of college education. Indeed, the same arguments which apply to education in business life, must apply, only with even greater force, to education in professional life. We say, "with even greater force," because the intellectual requirements of professions are unquestionably greater than those of business...