Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams debaters tied with the Debate Council last night at Leverett House in an argument on the topic "Resolved, That a liberal arts education can better be obtained in a college than a university." The third judge had failed to arrive, and the two present split their votes between the two teams...
...greater wealth can retain the best professors in every field they said. It can also attract a greater variety of students from all locates and economic levels with its prestige and endowment, thus furnishing the best association for men in training for life in society, according to their argument...
Your editorial stand on the Junior Year Abroad presents a most forceful argument for the extension of the new plan to include other fields of concentration, and points the way to an intelligent broadening of the current system. It seems highly desirable and logical that concentrators in fields other than Romance Languages to be given full opportunities to pursue European interests, and that appropriate or suitable courses can be found in European universities...
...Harmonies. Smuts's argument sounded logical enough, but ordinary logic does not rule the Commonwealth. Britain and the other Commonwealth nations wanted India in the family, no matter how nebulous the arrangement. For over a week, the Ministers debated the issue with India's sad-eyed Prime Minister
...great, if psychological, difference between guns and steel. There is a difference between the commitment to help nations when they are attacked, and their indiscriminate arming prior to such attack. The only possible justification for a Western European arms aid program might be a military one, and the military argument is invalid. Outside of this, neither the solidarity of the North Atlantic nations nor the general international situation requiring this solidarity warrants such a program...