Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...debate of last year, Harvard excelled in form but failed, once they had the ascendency in argument, to keep their opponents on the defensive. Though establishing a well knit case and abiding by it consistently, the Harvard speakers in general showed a lack of elasticity in adapting their arguments to Princeton's unexpected contention that the question itself in the phrase "continued domestic violence," pre-supposed the occurrence of violence beyond control of the State, and left the question merely one of whether or not the President should be the agent vested with the necessary controlling power. Neither team showed...
Ballantine closed the Harvard rebuttal with the argument that in all the instances cited by the affirmative the States have asked for aid. The affirmative had failed, he said, to show that States were unable of themselves to suppress riot and violence, which is a fundamental of their case. It makes a great difference whether the President is to have power to enforce State laws or national laws. With the first he should not be allowed to interfere; over the second his control already is adequate...
...A.A.U., but the sanction for the meet in 1900 was made out for an open meet because of a misunderstanding. Yale now has that sanction as evidence, but to meet it there is a statement from the New England A. A. U., that it considers the games closed. An argument against allowing the protest is that the Diocesan games are similar in every way to the interscholastic meets given annually by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania, and that if the Diocesan games are declared open the interscholastic ones will have to be included in the same classification...
...Washington Gladden gave an address at Brooks House last evening, on "Robert Browning's Argument for God." He said in part...
...country which undertakes it. The tariffs for fostering young industries have to be adjusted with extreme nicety, and are often too long continued. great care must be exercised in estimating the probability that the conditions supposed in these exceptions actually exist in any given case. Generally the argument is stronger for the retention of protection when it has become inveterate than for its introduction as now proposal in some quarters of the United Kingdom...