Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final analysis, the blame for academic casualties rests almost entirely with the student. It is easy to argue successfully against this conclusion, but the argument convinces no one but the individual concerned. There is a vast deal of intellectual deadwood and rubbish desecrating the upper stories of many Cornellians...
...established by the universities and colleges, but a departure from this "standard" should not be condemned because it is a departure. When, for instance, some institution, as Yale, makes a change in her system, as she did by abolishing a four-year Latin training for entrance, the only telling argument which can be brought against it is to show that the plan is out of harmony with the times...
...consensus of opinion shows conclusively that the University while being somewhat amused is thoroughly disgusted with the attitude which Mr. Wheel-wright has taken on higher salaries. He has no argument. His letter, which consists solely of incoherent statements and flashy phrases such as "clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...
...under the taint of an original sin, not even the members of the bar themselves will deny. The unfortunate belief that all lawyers are to be looked upon with suspicion is too deeply rooted in the mind of the ignorant and ill informed man to be dispelled by mere argument. You may argue with this individual and he will listen to you with a humorous twinkle in his eye realizing that he cannot answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause of the profession, but at the same time believing that the very strength of the argument against...
President Lowell and Senator Lodge are relatively of the same attitude on the League of Nations as were Webster and Hayne in their famous debate over the theory of "states' rights." In his life of Webster, Senator Lodge says that Webster's argument on the supremacy of the central government was historically unsound. He asserts that in 1787-88 "there was not a man in the country . . . who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the states, and from which each and every state had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very...