Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having to court a decision, the Harvard-Carleton speakers in Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions...
Money Market. There is no argument but that a Federal Reserve rediscount rate of 5�% would be more in keeping with present credit conditions than the 5% rate now obtaining. Last week call money was at 8% to 12%, time loans at 7�%, commercial paper at 5�%, bankers' acceptances (60 days) at 3 3/8%. The Federal Reserve rediscount rate was at the very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That...
...wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra had something that kept the Roman Legion at bay, while the sex appeal of Helen launched a thousand ships...
...contest was conducted under a combination of the Oregon and Oxford plans of debate. The first plan provides for two speakers on each team, one of whom devotes his time on the rostrum to a cross-examination of the man on the opposing team who presents the constructive argument. The Oxford plan provides for three speakers on each side and for an exchange of speakers by the opposing institutions...
Winding up his argument and pinning responsibility squarely on the Tycoons themselves, he described the right sort of salesman...