Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floor, everyone being given an equal opportunity to express his opinion. Speeches will be limited to five minutes unless the house signifies its desire to allow the speaker to continue for five more minutes. Whenever a member of one party wishes to express his appreciation of an especially convincing argument by an opponent he is requested to change sides. After the discussion opportunity will be given to shift to the side of the house with which one agrees. A count will then be taken of the number on either side. By this means it is hoped to determine the attitude...
...Seniors claimed that capital punishment is better fitted for protecting society from the criminal than life imprisonment because of the fact that a man's life is his dearest possession, and that he would consider well before jeopardizing it. The Sophomores based their argument on the statement that capital punishment does not protect society, for a jury naturally hesitates to condemn a man to death, so that a very small percentage of those actually guilty of murder ever receive the death sentence...
...Saturday's CRIMSON you published a very clear argument against our absurd little Christmas vacation, but it seems to me that one other question might be raised on the subject, one pertaining to finances...
What that position should be is open to argument. We believe that its real position at present is the right one. It should elect men on a competitive standard of scholarship, official records--faulty as they are--being in the long run the best tests of scholarship. The thirty-five highest-stand men of a class, say, should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient...
...fastest and best played game seen on Soldiers Field this year, the University baseball team yesterday defeated the Bates nine 2 to 1. The contest was a pitcher's battle throughout, Mahan having the better of the argument after the first inning...