Word: arguments
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Those who would retain ROTC in some form here eventually fall back on the argument that students have a right to receive military training, and that the majority should not legislate against a minority in this regard. But even if this right is conceded, it certainly does not follow that the university has any obligation to provide such training. There is no reason why the military could not train Harvard students outside of Harvard. The question is not one of forbidding Harvard students to receive military training, but rather of depriving the military of Harvard's institutional framework for conducting...
...board must try again at the polls for an increase that will allow them to stay open. Meanwhile, Youngstown's cantankerous voters inadvertently helped school systems elsewhere in Ohio. School supporters in Akron won a tax increase by waging a highly effective word-of-mouth campaign with the argument "Let's not become another Youngstown...
...quietly, without the rhetorical crescendos expected from a writer of Inaugurals, and did not seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument, not his delivery, that is convincing. The man is an analyst, not a salesman...
...Harvard community of all points of view. Furthermore, it summarized an hour and a half of debate in the phrase "heated discussion," devoting the rest of the article to a painfully short summary of the various positions expressed, and to five minutes of the meeting that contained one argument against the resolution, and the vote...
...expressing the mystery of the consecration, when the bread and wine at Mass become Christ's body and blood. His new creed, promulgated last July, was a disappointingly unimaginative restatement of doctrinal orthodoxy that differed only in minor details from the language of the Council of Trent. His argument against contraception in Humanae Vitae rested on a traditional understanding of natural law-the theory that the function of human organs is defined by their nature. This particular interpretation has been abandoned by most Catholic philosophers as crude and mechanistic...