Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ideas, but is, nevertheless, of sufficient interest to attract notice. He says: "With regard to the evils of the present system of college athletics it must be remembered that the best system will not be free from all evil. That the present system has evils is no valid argument against it, unless it can be shown either that these outweigh the good, or that some other practical system can be devised which shall have all the good with less of the evil of the present system." 1. The amount of time devoted to sport is, he claims, not excessive, never...
...chiefly carry on the discussion, if it were open. The latter method, a general discussion, would have some advantages, but it is open to the objection that it would take much longer to accomplish the same result, and would be much more apt to wander away from the main argument. But unless the students wish themselves placed in the same position as before, only to sit passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose to the college through our columns...
...argument of his address President Eliot thus concluded and summed up: "Finally, I step beyond the strict limits of my subject to urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. Liberal education is not safe and strong in a country in which the great majority of the men who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Now, that is just the case in this country. The great majority of the men who are engaged in the practice...
...anything; meaning thereby that it gave no sound instruction to a student who did not care to study." But one might ask what college ever did undertake to give "sound" instruction to such a student? Ex-Gov. Long's charge, we take it, is a variation on the old argument against the elective system...
...York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced...