Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bock's report on the continuation of compulsory physical exercises for student waiters embodies one important concession, which answers effectively the old argument that student waiters have not sufficient time to meet the Freshman physical requirements. In the future the exercise rules for all Freshmen will be abolished during the week before November hours, midyear and final examinations. This will allow three weeks before examinations and six weeks during the Exam periods, in which Freshmen may rejoice in stolid inactivity, with only a book in their hands to make the red corpuscles multiply or to get fresh...
...Another argument advanced by waiters is that they do sufficient exercise in the process of serving meals; a calculation shows that waiters walk 20 miles and lift 10 foot-tons per week. According to Dr. Bock, however, this is the wrong type of exercise, and does not supply the mental and nervous relaxation which is one of the principal objects of the requirement. Further, the present program offers "expert guidance by coaches in developing bodily skills, opens avenues for wider acquaintances, and fosters the spirit of cooperation...
...National Committee, moreover, has no power to impose its will upon affiliated groups. The most severe disciplinary action it could take would be to relieve Harvard of the obligation to pay the annual membership dues. The chief argument for affiliation is not that it will give additional material services to Harvard, but that the problems we are studying are national in character, and need national and coordinated attention...
...sovereignty over its own territory. It then launched into a recapitulation of 1914-18, touching off the Allies' hamstringing of Woodrow Wilson's famed Fourteen Points, the Allied occupation of the German Ruhr and the Franco-Soviet Pact of this year. The emotional, if not the legal, argument of this last was that if a man who has humored one neighbor by keeping his dog in the house finds that that neighbor has agreed with the neighbor on the other side to keep both their dogs in their yards, the first agreement is void...
After considerable argument Section 4 of this article was added, providing that "a member of the Council who fails to discharge his duties satisfactorily may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of the Council, and his position shall be filled by another member of his class within two weeks by a two-thirds vote of a quorum...