Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme VI. will be due May 1. Subjects: 1. What is the Rosetta Stone and what are the results to be gained from a study of it? 2. The argument for Vivisection. 3. Causes of Medieval and Recent Judaeophobia. 4. The Distinction between a Play and a Novel. 5. A Dialogue upon Tobacco. 6. Abuses in Inter-Collegiate Athletic Associations. 7. Seaside Hotels. 8. Why do so many college men choose the Law? 9. Should there be a Fence round Jarvis Field? 10. The Tewksbury Almshouse...
...this sort which they collect and spread before the public, it is needless to say, excites no other feeling than disgust in the mind of every one at all sensitive to the claims of decency and propriety. Like other matters of taste it is not a subject for argument. It is difficult to see how any instructor in an institution where such a publication is issued can avoid blushing at the sight of it; that is, if he cares anything for the tone of manners in the academic body to which he belongs, and for its reputation among persons...
...continued his argument for the government in the star-route trial yesterday, and ex-Senator Kellogg gave $10,000 bail to answer the indictment pending against...
...carried in the affirmative by a majority of one vote. The board of trustees afterwards refused to sanction this, with the proviso that women would be admitted when a special department was made ready for them. The secretary of the faculty of arts, Professor Jackson, delivered an elaborate argument against co-education, covering all the points very fully It has since been published in pamphlet form for distribution. The students of the university are almost unanimously opposed to co-education. At a meeting of the trustees, a committee report was presented setting forth a plan for the education of women...
...conclusion, were a class of superior men, whose influence was wholesome and conservative, and which especially was an education for political independence. Cornwallis said that the early establishment of Harvard College hastened American independence half a century, and Pitt gave testimony to "the solidity of reason, the force of argument and the wisdom" displayed by American statesmen at the time, who were graduates of American colonial colleges...