Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...
Before the debate was opened a vote was taken on the merits of the question, with the following result : Affirmative, 43, negative, 12. The vote on the strength of argument of the principal disputants stood, affirmative, 22, negative, 32. The following gentlemen spoke from the floor : Messrs. Whitman, L. s.,Noble,'85,Merriam,'86, Strong,'85, Hamilton,'87. After the debute had returned to the Principal disputands for summing up of rgument, a vote was on the merits of the debate as a whole. The affirmative received is votes and The negative 18. The following was selected as the subject...
...regards Thanksgiving, it cannot be said that Harvard had her birth first. If it could, I don't wish to be thought to call the argument a good one. Thanksgiving day is one of the oldest institutions of the country, and is always looked upon as a time for home gatherings. The granting of only one day off at Thanksgiving to us Harvard students tends to defeat this custom, which is as old and settled almost as the country itself of "home-gatherings" as regards the majority of the students. Of course we all love our Alma Mater...
...taking the floor was greeted with prolonged and vigorous applause. He delivered a most caustic review of Mr. Blaine's public career, being frequently interrupted by applause. Mr. Sewall was followed by Mr. Sannders, who, upon arising was saluted with thunders of applause. The speaker, in the most able argument of the evening, compared the records of the two parties and assailed the claims of the Democratic party to a reform policy. Mr. Hansen and Mr. Sanford both spoke with great force and pretinancy...
...TUESDAY.Lecture on Forensics. Special subject: Some Common Types of Argument; their Uses and Dangers. Dr. Royce. Sever...