Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges, at present a question of such living interest to Harvard, is continued by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in a third edition of his recent Phi Beta Kappa address, containing an appendix with much new matter and further testimony on the subject. Mr. Adams considers the recent argument derived from the testimony and experience of Berlin University in the matter, and calls particular attention to the agitation of the Greek question in England, particularly at the universities, where he thinks that the tendency of opinion is awards his side of the question. He extensively quotes the article in the January...
...eleven. In this paper he speaks only of the advantages gained, and on this side he has almost all the prominent educators to back him. Indeed in one place he quotes a long passage from a report of President Eliot, published several years ago. Professor Richards makes a good argument when he says that the college world in athletics is like a miniature republic the training in which fits men to command and obey, and gives them power of organization which will be of use to them in the world outside of college...
This and his argument that exercise to be most beneficial should be such as will interest the mind, are the newest and freshest, adding something to the long list already upholding the benefits of the system of college exercise. In a second paper he proposes to speak of the evils, which he thinks exaggerated, attending athletics in their present condition and of the means by which these evils may be remedied in the future. The appearance of this paper is awaited with some eagerness to see what view a prominent Yale professor takes on this subject which is at present...
...says: "It would be putting the estimate too low to say that at least half of the undergraduate members of the academic and scientific departments get quite a regular amount of systematic out-door exercise from, or in consequence of, the present system of college athletics. It is no argument against the system that all the members of the university do not take advantage of it. The need of exercise is met, and opportunities for regular and systematic exercise are given, with inducements to take it, which do act upon at least half of the membership of the two departments...
...There is not a college graduate in Sing Sing to-day," said Mr. Walker. "If the argument that common school education is a preventive of crime and poverty is a good one, will some one tell me why a college education is not better? The expensive crimes to a community are what may be termed crimes of intelligence; not murder and beastliness, but forgery and burglary on sound chemical, mechanical, and scientific principles. It is a clear proposition of republican government that the greater the number of the inhabitants who are intellectually cultivated the greater the safety of the State...