Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Assuming, for argument's sake, that neither Harvard nor Yale has solved the problem, let us see what the past few years have shown. First Yale beat us from 1886 to 1890. In these 5 years the average stroke was: Yale 35 1-2, 33, 34, 32, 34 1-2, or an average for the 5 years of 33.8. Harvard's average was: 37, 34, 37 1-2. 32, 36.3, or for the 5 years 35.4. Second, Harvard was victor in '82, '83 and '85. Our average stroke each year...
...motive and as much dramatic action as Aristophanes sufficient internal evidence would be scattered through his eleven palys to settle the point in dispute. The difficulty was to collect and arrange this matter scientifically. This Professor White has done in his monograph, putting it in the form of an argument. First, he has collected the passages which may be taken to prove the existence of a stage, in which the words commonly meaning "go up" and "go down" occur, and has skillfully shown that in Aristophanes' time they were used simply as stage terms in the sense...
...advantage of the change made last June in the constitution of the Phi Beta Kappa. The paragraph on examinations does not succeed in finding a remedy for them and leaves the matter in statuquo. The one on the Phi Beta Kappa makes out a very strong argument against the recent CRIMSON editorial...
...trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox of life, which was at the centre of Schopenhauer's pessimistic argument. And one must frankly admit the impossibility, from the finite point of view, of any rational insight into the concrete meaning of the world of this blind caprice. Only here it is that the postulate of Idealism triumphs, after all, as fortunate, over the obscurity of the facts. The Christian...
...higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday afternoon has always been considered the proper time for recreation, surely no one can be expected to work on Sunday, so that men are called upon to give up two whole days at home in order to do regular work on Saturday morning...