Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public defence, from a man intimately acquainted with the facts and conditions, of one of the most important and far-reaching changes made by the new administration. Dean Castle has summarized Mr. Lippmann's objections before replying to them, thereby enabling the reader to grasp both sides of the argument at the same time; and the article does more than anything hitherto published toward strengthening faith in the new plan...
...will speak in the order named. In rebuttal the order will be Ellis, Breland and Potter. The Princeton debaters will be P. S. Watters '10, S. A. Hunter '10 and C. Belknap '12. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for a main speech in which to present his argument, and five minutes for rebuttal. Dean B. S. Hurlbut will preside at the debate and the judges have been selected as follows: Professor F. J. Goodnow of Columbia; Professor J. W. Crook of Amherst; and Professor W. F. Willcox of Cornell. While the judges are reaching a decision...
...established by preceding classes. They have made of no avail the labors of their class officers and committees, for a class dinner which has to be stopped by the police is far worse than none at all. The failure of 1913 to hold an orderly dinner is a strong argument for the ending of the Freshman dinner custom...
...White '13 asks in his title "Should Harvard Learn to Fight?" The alarmed reader then learns gladly that the paper is a kind of argument for compulsory military drill in College...
...college papers, leave no reasonable doubt that a change in the Harvard entrance requirements is not only desirable but urgent. Both the examiners and the headmasters of preparatory schools are of this opinion. Moreover, all the reports received by the investigating committee show that a change is wise. One argument, however, has been too little emphasized--the failure of the present system to carry out its professed purpose...