Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When we come down to bottom facts it is on this question of the graduate school that the argument must be fought out. It is plain enough by the vote of the seniors and by the general talk of undergraduates that student feeling is against making the graduate department of more importance than the college itself. In fact the feeling is so strongly pronounced as to lead us to doubt whether the students have given the question more than a small part of the thorough consideration which has divided the Overseers and Faculty-bodies generally supposed to vote only after...
...upon this assurance that we signed this agreement with you-in fact the representatives of the three colleges met on that basis. Whatever may be your opinion of the correctness at the outset of our attitude in advocation the necessity of a series is now not open for argument. You acceded to it and we are unwilling to reopen the question. You have made agreements which have been annulled by your athletic committee without our consent. We cannot treat with you further...
Subjects for "argument" in English B are due Tuesday...
...Some limitation is now imperative in our Senate because: a. The minority is trying to kill measures by delay and not by argument. 1. Using obstructive proceedings; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong., 2nd Sess., 1646 et ad lib.; and 2. Expressly approving of obstruction; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong. 2nd Sess., p, 1881. b. The amount of work to be done by the Senate is large and increasing...
...beginning of the second halfyear finds the Annex in a flourishing condition. The total number of students has risen to 172, of which 21 are in the freshman class. Apropos of the argument advanced for the three years course, that Harvard men enter college too old, a comparison of the ages of the freshman and senior classes of the two colleges will be of interest...