Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course such an argument as this leaves out of consideration all those men whose genuine interest does lead them to do regular work. But their scholarship is presumably high anyway. It is in an improvement by those at the bottom that there is the greatest room to raise the average...
...competition, but only the second-year men in the clubs are allowed to compete. The competition 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 of any one club can argue more than once until at least six men in that club have argued, except in the final round, where no restriction is made. There are three judges at each trial, either third-year men, or lawyers from Boston, asked to serve...
...team, this time by the score of 12 to 0. Today's trip and tomorrow's game mean a renewal of football relations, an event welcome alike to graduates as well as undergraduates. Of the 15 games played between 1877 and 1896, Princeton had decidedly the better of the argument, winning 11 and tying...
...they divided honors with Pennsylvania and played an extra inning game with Cornell. It is true that Princeton lost to both Williams and Amherst, but the difference in strength of the schedule of the three institutions practically eliminates the two New England colleges. Cornell, however, does have a serious argument with Princeton for the reason that the Tigers failed to defeat the Ithacans and the latter beat Pennsylvania, whose team broke even with Princeton, by winning three out of four games. Cornell, however, lost the series to Dartmouth, won and lost with Yale, but did not play Harvard, whose team...
...fund given by Mrs. James Barr Ames, at the request of her husband, two prizes of $200 and $100, respectively, be given each year, until otherwise ordered, to the winners of a competition between law clubs formed by students in the Law School. The competition will consist of the argument of suitable questions of law framed by the Law School advisers and subject to the approval of the Faculty...