Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...happens that one who from much reading is acquainted with the minutiae as well as the outlines of history gets no higher mark (or perhaps not so high) than another who has confined himself to a syllabus. But granted that marks are too trivial a matter for a grave argument like this, there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When examinations are based wholly upon a syllabus, the students are encouraged to rest content with superficial study; at other times there is a tendency, at any rate, to force those who wish to distinguish themselves...
...when they make themselves happy and their friends miserable by long letters in doggerel. In a word, all men write poetry at some time, and a great many while in college. Of these latter it may be allowable for me to speak with all reverence, remembering that the unanswerable argument "Try it yourself" comes from the poets with peculiar force...
WERE dirty vituperation argument, the criticism upon Dr. Bartol's "Radical Problems" in the last Madisonensis would be very effective. It proposes to alter the title to "Lying Made Easy." It accuses him of good, square misrepresentations, or lies, and of lies oblique. The spirit of the article may be gathered from the comments upon garbled passages quoted from his work, many of which passages, by the by, strike us as particularly fine: "Too bad:"-" No; we hate lying."-"O blind man: O blind man:"-"Ah:"-"Here's richness! here's oiliness!"-"O, some of these Unitarian Radicals are noble...
...knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at least success has been attained and not merely half-way work; the other an argument from the desire for culture - true culture - itself the training of the whole mind, not by vague ideas gained in careless study or reading, but by definite, clear-cut knowledge of that for which we feel ourselves most fitted...
...above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk to Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp morning in winter, or the balmy air of the better days of spring, is a strong argument in favor of walking even in preference to exercise within the walls of a gymnasium, where ventilation, especially in cold weather, is difficult. In fact, exercise within doors has always to contend with a disadvantage, and they make a strong point against dancing who urge that it is usually indulged...