Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suzerainty of England over the Transvaal, which is in accordance with the treaty of 1884, exists only by inference. The treaty practically gave no suzerainty to England; it only enlarged the powers of self-government in the Transvaal: therefore Harvard's argument that suzerainty goes with self-government, falls through. The deputation that went to London in 1884 from the Transvaal went with the avowed purpose of getting rid of suzerainty; and the English have sanctioned this idea in the minds of the Boers for the last thirteen years. The policy of the Transvaal, bad as it is made...
...team from the Sophomore Debating Club was defeated by Exeter Academy at Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the Transvaal because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect...
...last Princeton speaker was Matthew Lowrie. He was anxious to emphasize his previous assertion that the negative were debating facts, not theories. The whole argument of the affirmative on the Canadian question, he said, was based on the assertion that there is no systematic investigation. We say that there is such an investigation and that the law gives the power to strengthen it whenever it is deemed necessary...
...remainder of his argument was devoted to giving specific examples of these evils and their tendency to lower social and political conditions...
...thank the team not only for the victory they have won for the University, but for the encouragement which this victory will give to recent efforts toward increasing debating facilities here and organizing debating strength. We believe that although not beyond criticism, their showing last evening both in argument and form was unquestionably superior to that of the visiting team. The visitors, we wish to thank for the unhedging manner in which they met their opponents, thus clearly defining the question and avoiding any unsatisfactory misunderstanding...