Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question has been decided, it may be expected that an attempt will be made to create sympathy for the governor as having been slighted, and it will be asserted that the college has set itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college. But we fancy that the governor's vote will not be increased nor the college hurt to any appreciable extent by the act of yesterday. Nobody ever supposed that the authorities of Harvard College regarded his excellency...
...majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state, a great contention going on as to which side she shall espouse. A well-known teacher and writer on the protective side of the argument has received a call there, but has declined. At Columbia, in the school of political science, all instruction given is of a free trade tendency, although it is thought that most of the students are mild protectionists. Amherst has an instructor of political economy in Prof. A. D. Morse...
...truth improvements tend to decrease rather than to increase rent. Improvements in transportation obviously decrease rent, by bringing new lands into cultivation, or rendering old lands more accessible. Improvements in agriculture have the same effect. Mr. George, therefore, has neither fact nor argument to uphold...
...given the Cambridge mucker to voice his sentiments. It is sufficient annoyance when his hoots and cries are confined to the outside of the fence, but when his comments on the game are shouted forth almost directly over one's head, it is simply unbearable. Perhaps no better argument could be brought forward for a fence around the new athletic grounds than a few such exhibitions as these...
...additional argument was needed to show the disastrous effect of the anti-professional rule on our athletics, a decisive one has been given in the loss of both the Yale game and the Amherst game through Harvard's weakness at the bat. Our play in the field in both these games was all that could have been wished for; but it is folly to expect the nine to win games without being able to bat, and it is equal folly to expect a nine to be able to bat without any practice. Our nine enters the championship contest this year...