Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other permanent remedy, the retirement of the legal tender notes, is the best. But the strong argument for this plan is not the one ordinarily given, the "endless chain" argument, the depletion of the gold reserve. For this could be remedied by the former plan of keeping down the volume of currency. The real argument for the complete retirement of the legal tender notes is the danger of over-issue. This is the familiar argument against the issue of inconvertible paper money...
...steady, hard work of the clubs, and the courses in speaking, Harvard debaters have gained a high degree of thoroughness and sincerity of address. Those who have really done justice to their opportunities for practice and criticism have at least become ready, easy talkers, and methodical in argument...
...possibly have an injurious effect on the standards of ability which we set before us. Debating as it is known today has hardly passed its infancy. Our graduates of the older generation tell us of the almost total lack, in their time, of facilities for acquiring skill in public argument. An appreciation of the defects of our present attainments is the only thing which can give us any prospect of continued success. The experience of the past few years indicates plainly the lines along which improvement must come. The fact that florid and pompous oratory is becoming more and more...
...Harvard man, thought that he had a right to express an opinion on the subject and did so. Mr. Warner calls this muzzling the University. Apart from telling us that he has nothing to say of the significance of the Monroe Doctrine, the gist of Mr. Warner's argument is, that Mr. Roosevelt objects to any criticism of our government's conduct of our foreign affairs, as being disloyal. It is difficult to see how any man who has read Mr. Roosevelt's communication can find grounds for supporting such an assertion...
...threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs...