Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will probably have to be cut to a week on account of warm weather. Some critics of Harvard sports say that the seasons are generally too long, and that the men suffer from over-training. This spring's results will show just how much soundness there is in this argument. In any case, the crew and baseball team will be handicapped for their first contests, which come in the spring vacation...
...regards today's communication, the writer's statement that the "Union is a failure" and a "dying institution" is too preposterous for argument. The Union is of inestimable service to the University. It furnishes meeting places for numerous class, organization, and University gatherings; it provides lectures of great interest and profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish...
...Another argument presented for membership by compulsion was the fact that at Radcliffe they have a Union which is run successfully on this basis...
...Beta Kappa men were distinctly younger than the average. This confirms President Lowell's observation that the younger men make the best scholars and the age of the men in Class A indicates that it is also the younger men who attain the highest distinction in undergraduate activities. The argument in favor of sending boys to college as early as possible thus receives new support...
...following candidates have been retained: Brentano, Carter, Davidson, D. Davis, J. Davis, Dunton, Epstein, Levy, J. W. Miller, Otis, Paine, Palmer, Roberts, Saliba, Sergeant, Sole, Spitz, Thompson, Trafford, Walker, Whittemore. Each will be expected to deliver a ten-minute argument on either side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of compulsory military service modelled after that of Switzerland...