Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lowrey '13, on the negative, outlined the limitations of the sport. It does not allow men who have never played before to become skilful enough to play the game in college. The most important argument against the sport is that only 17 men can be kept busy at one time and that there is no provision made for those who are cut from the squad...
...aggressively defended hockey as a major sport. "There is no sport in College for which the undergraduate enthusiasm is so great as in the case of hockey, with the possible exception of football and if the undergraduates as a whole show their enthusiasm this is one of the important arguments in its favor." That the facilities for hockey at present are inadequate is not a fair argument, for when track was made a major sport in 1892 there was much less available equipment than hockey has at present...
...answering this argument Captain Gardner asserted that individual training was not necessary, but that any man can learn by himself the technique of skating and stick-work...
...communication in your Saturday edition, our friend Quintus Flaccus would be tempted to remark:--"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Indeed the whole affair, from the mingled applause and that combination of 'hiss' and 'sneer' which so worries our friend, to the newspaper article, the letter and the now current argument pro and con, smacks of hyperbole...
That 75 years of experience have demonstrated public ownership superior, was the argument of F. F. Greenman '14. Though rates under this regime are higher, yet the earnings more than proportionately excell those of the other regime...