Word: argumentative
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...argument frequently used to explain the paucity of female professors at Harvard and other top research universities across the country is a lack of available female candidates for tenure—commonly referred to as the “pipeline problem.” The University, after all, can’t tenure women where they don’t exist...
...told the story of an unprincipled business associate “who would shake hands on a deal and then construct a rational argument for abandoning...
...enrollments. Institutionally we support catalog shopping, by printing, at considerable expense, both the Courses of Instruction and the CUE Guide, complete with instructor ratings. But live shopping is frowned upon, in spite of the familiarity we all have with the differences between catalog descriptions and the real products. The argument that one can’t begin teaching for a week because of shopping period seems odd, given that it is the instructor and not the student who is giving the lectures, assigning the homework and recording the grades. Shopping is not and has never been a valid excuse...
...first we had a little trouble forming a position,” says Peter P. Buttigieg ’04 of the Harvard College Democrats. “There was a very credible liberal argument for going to war and it made us think twice of any stance we might take...
Lewis took issue with the Law School’s argument that they need to stay close to the Yard...