Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negative. The debate was then opened for the affirmative by Mr. Paine, '88, who spoke clearly and forcibly. He was followed by Mr. Burdett, '88, for the negative, Mr. Hesseltine, '88, for the affirmative, and Mr. Chenoweth, '88, for the negative. The vote on the merits of the argument of the principal disputants resulted in 17 votes for the affirmative, and 26 for the negative. The debate was then opened to the floor. The following men spoke on the affirmative: Messrs. Saunders, L. S.; Fay, L. S.; Page, '88; F. B.'s Williams, '88, and Sternbergh '87. On the negative...
...purely on their merits and for their interest in the Union. The names of the principal speakers will bear out this assertion. The Advocate says to get an appointment, it is only necessary "to be constant in attendance, in volubility and in activity." Now certainly this is not an argument against the committee. It would certainly be very bad policy for the management to appoint men who have been irregular in attendance, who have seldom spoken, and make a merit of inactivity...
...thoughtfully make an unbiased judgment, for if the charges made by the Advocate and our correspondent are true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers of expression, to their modes of thought, and to their conceptions of what argument should be. Therefore, a warning should be made in time. We feel obliged to dissent from the statement of the committee: and from our own experience at the debates, we must frankly admit that there is a lamentable carelessness in the manner in which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance...
...barriers at the entrance and end of each path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate. The man who uses the path most, best realizes its value, and therefore can hardly be expected to forego, unless met by some convincing argument, a practice which has already become with many a habit...
Theme VI is due on Tuesday, May 11. Subject: An Argument...