Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...South American territory would be dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland. He has realized that there could be none. Venezuela is 2,000 miles from New Orleans. The Rio Grande of the South and the Sao Francisco of Brazil are twice as far from the United States, as are the rivers Elbe and Weiser of Germany...
...will be readily seen, this is the kernel of the argument in favor of the adoption of a constitution. It is the fundamental reason for its adoption by any organization--it is a means by which official business, in the interests of all, may be conducted more systematically, more definitely, and more serviceably...
...their number through a set of vulgar performances utterly unrelieved even by the originality or wit which is sometimes supposed to atone for such infringements of the ordinary rules of good breeding. I do not know to what club or fraternity these men belong, but if a better argument were lacking for doing away with public initiations by those clubs to which age or other virtues may have given a certain prestige, such imitations of their ways as I saw last night ought to make us give up the whole silly business. GRADUATE...
From the point of view of its general effect on the University the argument is more important and involved. On the one hand it is urged that athletics are an undergraduate's recreation and that the main interest and support is among the undergraduates. Moreover, that it is apt to be among the graduate students that the doubtful cases arise. But, on the other hand, our teams are after all University teams, the presence of older men adds an element of balance--and the interest felt by the schools represented helps knit our loose-jointed system into a whole...
...beaten. This shows that there must be a difference in the personnel of a college and university team. The mere fact that one university has an advantage over another university in the respective playing abilities of the members of its graduate departments does not enter into the argument...