Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with surprise in learning from the article in the Spirit of the Times, from which extracts were recently printed in the CRIMSON, that Yale does not claim the boating championship of American colleges. Cornell, the Sun says, defeated Bowdoin on Lake Quinsigamond, July 5, 1887, by two feet. The argument advanced by the Spirit of the Times, if supplemented by this fact clearly gives the championship to Cornell. Certainly the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson, in endorsing the statements of the Spirit of the Times make this concession. If Yale does not now claim the championship nothing now remains...
...instead of 541, as the Advocate correspondent has it. It is easy to calculate that 458 is 22 per cent. of 2079. Yet the Advocate correspondent makes 541, almost 100 more than 458, only 20.6 per cent. of the same number. Errors such as these are fundamental, and no argument can proceed on tables so compiled. We have not had time to go over the figures which the Advocate correspondent gives for Yale in 1889 90 but we have no reason, after such a display of ignorance of the elements of arithmetic, to suppose them correct...
However for the sake of argument supposing his figures for Yale to be correct and making the necessary changes in the figures given for Harvard, the table for 1889-90 will stand as follows...
...Wisconsin and California. Now we lead them in five states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, California and Iowa. The correspondent of the Advocate has chosen a very inopportune moment for taking up his clumsy weapons. If he had been here in '79-80 he might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent for his attack, Harvard has made enormous gains and is now much nearer Yale than...
...base the above argument on the figures in the Advocate. Any one may satisfy himself of its truth in five minutes. It is quite true that the college proper has gained only 13 western men in the past year and has not been gaining as fast as Yale in this respect for some time, but I argue that there is nothing in the least alarming in this fact, because the facts for a few years show nothing of the tendency of the college...