Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both teams fielded well, the Freshmen having the better of the argument, as three misplays were given the visitors, while 1914 made...
...argument in favor of the honor system in conducting examinations seems to me to be based upon a mistaken view of the object of the present method of supervision by proctors. If the precise object of supervising written examinations is that of inculcating a sense of honor in the participants, there may be something said for banishing the proctor; and we may even welcome the evidence, which is doubtless trustworthy, that in some colleges where cheating has been rife and where there has been practically no public sentiment against it, the introduction of the honor system has apparently brought...
When this lectureship was founded there was extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system...
...immediately manifest itself in a much higher average mark. That, then, is the great justification for the proposed move: it will tend to induce every man to do his best in scholarship, as most are at present doing in outside affairs to the detriment of deserved academic credit. This argument in favor of the publication of marks we consider to outweigh every thing which has so far been said in opposition...
...represented by G. V. Seldes, R. L. West, and I. Levin, who will speak in the order named. The Princeton freshmen debaters will be P. Butler, J. L. Mott, and J. M. Colt. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for a main speech in which to present his argument, and five minutes for rebuttal. Professor I. L. Winter of the department of Public Speaking will preside at the debate and the judges have been selected as follows: J. Q. Dealey, Professor of Political Economy at Brown University; G. W. Scott; Professor of International Law at Columbia University...