Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough to see he is a fool...
...clock. The question under debate was: "Resolved, That Woodrow Wilson Should be Re-Elected President of the United States." The debating on both sides was very keen and spirited, and the whole subject was well threshed out. Each political club was represented by three speakers, and the argument centred around them. Judge A. P. Stone '93, in introducing the first speaker, characterized the two candidates by stating that which ever one is elected, he will be a man who will be an honor to the country...
...Dawson 3L, in introducing the Republican side of the argument, attached the Underwood Tariff Law, claiming that the Democratic party is not responsible for the present prosperity; but the European war is, and that to claim this is to say that the Democratic party is responsible for the European...
...root of the trouble is not hard to find. The intense rivalry between the various colleges, the subordination of everything to the desire for teams which will win, these things have led to absurd competition in expenditures. It is like the race for armaments. The argument is that no team can hope to win unless it can be provided with all high priced coaching, scouting, dieting and other paraphernalia that its rivals are getting. To the progressive development of that absurdity, as the Yale report wisely points out, there is no end in sight. The time has surely come, therefore...
...talking over the subject of naval versus military training, a considerable number of men have told me that they were going in for military training because it was less technical and could be learned more quickly and easily. If they are right it is the very strongest argument for men of intelligence, and men who have followed a trade or profession which would help to make them useful in the navy, to take a course in naval training...