Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first time since the triangular system was established in 1909, the judges will cast their votes separately. The chairman will announce the decision. Each debater will speak for twelve minutes in constructive argument, and five in rebuttal. The affirmative speakers begin the argument and have the last rebuttal speech...
...have been announced. The Yale team which meets the University negative at Cambridge consists of W. D. Whitney, W. Millis, and L. S. Hitchcock. Princeton will be represented by L. M. Steven, W. H. Hendrickson Jr., and R. C. Sailer. Each speaker will talk for twelve minutes in constructive argument and five in rebuttal. The chairman will be Mayor Andrew J. Peters '95, of Boston. The Judges have not yet been announced...
...this topic every college student should be thoroughly well-informed; to be ignorant is to shirk one's responsibility. Most of us have tried to follow the Peace Conference in the newspapers; but we really know very little beyond the fact that there is some sort of an argument about the Saar Vallely and that Italy is not satisfied. A great number of Harvard men have never read the Covenant for the League of Nations and some never will. Although an absolutely ignorant person will be able to gain important knowledge from Mr. Taft's lecture, the benefit and enjoyment...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...
Work on the subject begins for the team today when a meeting of all members will be held in Claverly 45 to discuss lines of argument. Briefs of both sides of the case will be handed in tomorrow, and the first trial debate will take place in the New Lecture Hall on Wednesday at 5 o'clock...