Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...members of both teams showed great power in adapting themselves to the trend of the argument, and in suiting their own argument closely to that of their opponents. Yale's essential proposition was that though organization of labor has been necessary, and has as a matter of fact resulted in some good, yet on the whole it has tended to put its own interests paramount to those of the employer, the non-union man, and the public at large. Harvard answered this by arguing that the good which trade-unionism has aimed at could not have been accomplished without some...
...judgment, holding out to him as an ideal that he should know his subject so thoroughly as to be able to take part in a debate with Yale or Princeton with nothing committed to memory, with nothing rigidly predetermined, but with the whole question clear in his mind, every argument at his tongue's end, alert, ready to adapt his reasoning closely to that of his opponents. Indeed, to inculcate in him this ideal, and, more immediately, to direct his work so that time and energy may not be wasted,--are the functions of the coach. How well these...
...Lyman '03, and F. B. Wagner 1L., Grossman, winning the Coolidge prize. M. Hale '03, S. Blaikie '03, and E. M. Rabenold, was chosen alternate. The debate was held on Monday, March 23, before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. The University speakers won chiefly by better massing of argument upon vital issues and by considering the question from a broader point of view. Mr. Bliss Perry presided at the debate, and the judges were president Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost C. C. Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arthur L. Brown of Providence...
...editorials in the current number of the Advocate suggests that the University insist upon a higher standard of scholarship than is at present required. The chief argument presented in favor of a change is that the prevailing rules do not demand enough of the kind of work that is permanently valuable to the student...
...theism was accepted absolutely, and men reasoned from it to show that Christianity was the true form of religion. Bishop Butler, whose works on religion were held authoritative at that time, regarded man primarily as a thinking being and truth as an idea, which could be proven by abstract argument or manifestation. Thus "proved by miracles" is a common reason for Bishop Butler's conclusions about...