Word: arguments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main point of Prof. Ladd's argument refers to the comparative attendance at two colleges in question. The members of '85 at Harvard "'cared to stay away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard...
...vote on the merits of the question resulted in 67 votes for the affirmative and 43 for the negative. The following gentlemen spoke as principal disputants, affirmative, A. B. Houghton, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87; negative, A. C. Boyden, '86, and J. M. Merriam, '86. The skill in argument was decided in favor of the negative by a vote...
...attributed in a very large measure to the policy of the University of Pennsylvania, the chief educational institution in that district. The name "University" is made to appear to be grossly misapplied, and this misapplication to be due to the utter lack of any dormitory life. Surely no stronger argument can be advanced for the adoption of the dormitory system, and its extension to whatever limits circumstances and demand justify. The aim of the trustees of the University is said to be "to train boys up in the way the should go," and by that we suppose is meant...
...argument for dress, more hereafter. That concerning the "speech" appears to our provincial judgment both a novel and unwarranted assumption. True, we are not a nation of jeunes premiers, but there have been musical voices in our land and history. The voices of Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, proclaiming the sovereignty of simple manhood had a sweetness and musical cadence which still makes melody upon our People's lips. The tones of these men are the models after which our accents are framed, and their music, I take it, needs not the tawdry finery of affectation...
...manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully prepared and committed speech, though it may be faultless in form and logical in argument...