Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...history of Wabash College is a powerful argument for the efficiency of prayer. The increase of students and patrons, funds continually augmented by the most liberal donations, and steadily advancing power and influence, give the best assurances to its officers that their supplications have been heard. To those 'seeking a sign,' both the recent gift and numerous others from the same source afford the strongest evidence of Divine assistance. Nor could Professor Tyndall's elaborate theory be more admirably refuted than by these wonderful proofs." - Geyser...
...drawback to our progress here is the bashfulness of the instructors. When we advance an opinion in the class-room, and back it up with argument, the professor appears to draw back into his shell, and to decline controversy with us, because we are ladies. They need n't be so awfully afraid of us. Meanwhile the students of the stronger (?) sex perform what they call a "wood up." Before I came here I always supposed that the bray was the distinctive noise of the donkey; here it appears that the stamp...
...regard to the increase of the number of members, it needs no argument to show that the deserted depot which provided ample accommodation for one hundred students in 1865 affords but scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...