Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Berle, Jr., '13 was the third speaker and chose the affirmative for his argument. The present infairness to the French peasant could best be corrected by the income tax, yet this tax is felt much less by the rich man than by the poor man. There is an inequality of sacrifice. But the solution is that the rich man should be taxed more in proportion to his income. In this way the income tax would force the people to be perfectly honest. France's income would be increased and the national debt would be diminished. An income tax more nearly...
...into a marriage and children tax. Thus, in other ways, such as the door and window tax, the present system is inadequate and unjust. The new system has been tried out in England and has succeeded, and in almost all other European countries except France. This is the greatest argument in its favor. The income tax did not bring about the French Revolution. The French deputies, who are nearest the will of the people, voted for it at their last session. This seems abundant proof that the French people want...
...other parallel cases her clarity of vision seems sometimes to be dimmed. The writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant to waste a trainer upon them, does not appear. But either argument...
This wholsale cutting of lectures on the days of big games is one of the bad features of a football season. More than once in the past it has been used as an argument for the abolition of football and may be so used again. In order that the present satisfactory status of athletics may be preserved without Faculty interference, cutting in connection with football games must be materially reduced...
...last year was so clearly foreign to its province and so much an intrusion on the vested privileges of the Dramatic Club that the CRIMSON was constrained to protest. We have been assured that the Speakers' Club will hereafter confine itself to the encouragement of public reading, speaking, and argument, in which, since the decline of the debating organizations, it has opportunities for great usefulness...