Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the new regulations, in force for the first time this year, all second-year men were divided into clubs of eight each, six of whom represented their clubs before the "court." At each argument two representatives of one club faced two from another, judges deciding upon the winner. In this way, each club took part in six arguments. To determine the clubs which should survive the qualifying round, all the organizations were divided into groups according to their respective percentages of arguments won and lost. If the highest group contained four or more clubs, all in that group only...
...President Lowell, cannot be solved by any University. It can be suggested, as President Lowell has done in his report, but there must be country-wide education in the matter before there will be any perceptible increase in the number of men who enter at this age. The argument that the difficulty of the entrance examinations makes long preparation for college necessary is shown to carry little weight by the fact that the younger members of the present Freshman class, as a rule, did better work than the older ones...
Four more communications on the beer question--selected from some dozens--are printed in today's issue. With these letters, the argument seems to have been given sufficient space in the CRIMSON, and those desiring further discussion are referred to the Forum which will be held on the subject soon after the mid-years...
From the standpoint of injuring the name of the college, the argument is ludicrous. Of the hundreds attending class functions during the year very few drink to excess. Is it not better to have a smoker here than have the same number of men go into town and drink there. Yet this is what the "revolutionists" forcing upon the majority...
...those events (as well as handling questions of eligibility, etc.) high and dry above all criticism. But there are many other passes, as the above incident shows; and they are bound to multiply. And in every one of them, the added ounce of generous courtesy outweighs a ton of argument. WILLIAM E. HOCKING...