Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Kimball brings up in his defence the argument that this letter was the expression of private opinion. But he forgets the prominent position which the captain of the University eleven occupies, and that such an opinion from him is equal to as much as a voted college document. Such a letter will not only destroy the excellent feeling between Princeton and Harvard, but at the same time it will look as if we are trying to fawn on Yale, after getting most disgracefully whipped in foot ball this year...
...committee which now begins to sit like a high court of chancery, and issue injunctions against every department of athletics, now asserts on the argument of the Advisory Committee of the graduates, that Mr. Bancroft cannot be had as coach for the crew...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -There is it seems to me, a very serious slip in the Athletic Committee's argument in favor of prohibiting intercollegiate foot ball. The premises of the argument are these: 1-"foot ball as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous;" (2) "and we do not believe that at the present time and with the prevailing spirit, any revision of the rules made by the Intercollegiate Association would be effective in removing these objectionable features." From these premises they draw the conclusion that inter college foot ball...
...premises are borne out by facts, then the conclusion ought certainly to hold good. But one of the premises is false, or at best a mere assumption. Granting the first premise for the sake of argument, yet I claim that the Committee offer almost no proof at all to support the second premise, viz., that the objectionable features of the game can not be removed by any revision of the rules by the Intercollegiate Association. This last statement is almost a pure assumption on the Committee's part. The only arguments they offer in support of their belief is that...
...argument that suitable and sufficient changes cannot be made, now, or in future, because the changes made last year did not accomplish all that was hoped for, -this argument, I say, is childish and worthless. For, in the first place, the students now are much better able to judge what changes are needed, and, secondly, changes which last year were almost universally opposed by the students, would this year meet with almost unanimous approval. Let it be remembered, however, that the reason of this opposition last year was not so much because we were unwilling to see changes made...