Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second fundamental, besides liberty and opportunity, is that people shall be represented in their own government. There can be no argument of this statement,--it validates itself, if the government is to be one that will represent public opinion...
There were 22 clubs entered in the competition which takes the form of an elimination tournament, and consists of a series of trials of moot cases, an agreed statement of facts being framed by the Board of Student Advisers. At each argument the clubs are represented by two counsel apiece, only second-year men being allowed to compete...
...seems to us that a presentation of the facts is sufficient argument in favor of this proposed change. Any graduation exercises which require two-thirds of the graduating class to inform their parents that they cannot witness the final exercises defeat the very object for which most parents come to Cambridge at the end of the academic year; namely, to see their sons honorably discharged and the diploma received. It is true that the actual sheep-skin may not possess the intrinsic value of past years but the final ceremonies attached to graduation are naturally of the greatest interest...
...fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should be rendered, as well as failure to uphold one half of the academic contract, should more than outweigh any other argument in favor of the present universal levity...
...Levin '14 based his argument on the fact that strikes by government employees are of the same nature as those by employees of private corporations and so can not be justify considered criminal...