Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...obvious argument that the Union fills an important place in the University has been further strengthened by the committee's report, which also advises that membership in the Union be made compulsory. Only by this measure can its financial condition be put on a firm basis. However, this is a change of such radical character, affecting every undergraduate, that it has been thought decidedly advisable to obtain the opinion of the college as a whole...
...Pasteur Debate medal was won by Edward Reese Roberts '16, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., last night. He upheld the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the policy of the French in Morocco during the present century has made due allowance for the rights of other European countries." Basing his argument on the paramount interests of France in the country, he showed how successive events have made necessary each step taken by the French, and how Germany, wishing to get control of mining concessions which her merchants had obtained from the Sultan for a nominal price, did everything she could...
...allowed to drag out wearily to a catastrophe. Compulsory membership, however, faces a difficulty which even its strongest advocates cannot overlook: it practically means raising the tuition fee above the two hundred dollar mark which is to take effect next fall. It will be recalled that an argument made in favor of raising the fee to $200 was the fact that that amount would include all fixed charges, such as the infirmary fee and laboratory fees. The tuition fee would be $200 and no more. An increase of even a few dollars through compulsory membership means practically an increase...
...quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject with greater brevity and force. Mr. Burrows replies to an editorial criticizing his expansionist views, but leaves the impression that if Mr. Mitchell cares to continue the argument there are obvious enough openings. Whatever one may think of the views expressed in these three articles, it must be said of them, as of the reviews, that they display eager and interested thinking on things that matter...
...Herrick's second point seems to be that the Athletic Committee could, but has not defined the powers of any coach. Of this fact the CRIMSON has long been aware. But because the Athletic Committee has not done so in the past is scarcely an argument against such action...