Word: arguments
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Following are the contents of the first number, which will be 16 pages in length: "The Debating Method," by Governor L. F. C. Garvin of Rhode Island, Amherst '68; "Review of the Yale-Princeton Debate on American Empire"; "The Ffteenth Amendment Debated by Pennsylvania and Virginia"; "Analysis and Argument of Timely Questions...
...judges based their unanimous conclusion on the belief that the speakers of the negative were not only superior in form but presented and maintained a positive line of argument which could not be opposed...
...defeated Princeton tonight in the annual debate. The Yale team, which supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently unless with the purpose that it ultimately enjoy statehood," surpassed its opponents in both oratory and argument and presented a much clearer and better connected case. Both teams were inclined, however, to be somewhat flippant. The judges, Professor John Bassett Moore, LL.D., of Columbia University, Hon. Lucas F. C. Graven, Governor of Rhode Island, and Mr. A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent, were unanimous in their decision...
...prologue is set behind the scenes of a theatre. Mile Beauval is discovered in a heated argument with the director of the theatre. Monsieur Dancourt. Complaining of the shortness of the play and of the inappropriateness of its title, she refuses to act her part of heroine. The director's remonstrances are in vain. Mile. des Brosses, attendant to Mile. Beauval, announces that the author refuses to allow the play to proceed with the present cast, whereupon Mile. Beauval is as insistent on taking the part of heroine as she had previously been in declining to do so. Monsieur...
...debate was held in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, on December 4, before the largest audience which ever listened to an intercollegiate debate, and resulted in victory for Yale. Both sides met the question fairly and showed great power in suiting their own arguments closely to those of their opponents. Harvard lost mainly through delay in meeting the fundamental argument of Yale, although it was met as well as possible before the close of the debate...