Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Club will be given by Mr. William E. Walling in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Progressivism and After," the title of a book which he is to publish shortly. In his work and lectures on this subject, Mr. Walling draws up his argument in favor of more radical measures than those advocated by the Progressives and shows the necessity of instituting a movement that will forge ahead toward the aim of Socialism with more efficiency and speed than the present methods...
According to Section 5 of the Ames Competition Rules, "the judges in making their award shall consider the ability shown in preparing briefs, in presenting arguments, in accurately and succinctly stating the authorities cited, and in meeting questions put by the court during the argument." The relative weight to be given to the various factors is entirely in the discretion of the judges...
There is an old argument that colleges located in or near large cities offer to their students unlimited cultural advantages; and this argument is really founded on fact, at least in the case of Harvard. There are, surrounding this University, all the opportunities of the opera, museums, libraries, and theatres of Boston, and, equal to any or several of these, the free lecture courses at the Lowell Institute. The course which is particularly worthy of notice at this time is Mr. Noyes's series on "The Sea in English Poetry," which has been so popular as to warrant the scheduling...
Pennsylvania State, secured at the eleventh hour to fill the vacancy caused by the cancellation of the Norwich game, put up a slightly better argument, allowing the University to score only 29 points. This margin does not, however, indicate the true conditions of the contest, for several times the brilliantly spectacular work of Miller, the Penn. quarter, made a score seem imminent...
...different times during past years the CRIMSON has tried to make arrangements for printing an Infirmary list in its columns, but always it has been unable to overcome the argument of the authorities that to do so would attract needless attention of friends of the sick men, perhaps alarming them when there was no cause for fear, or suggesting that they call when quiet would be better than company for the invalids. Yet there remained the fact that men went to the infirmary and were simply lost for a time, to their own and their friends' chagrin. A satisfactory remedy...