Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more hard-hearted but equally cogent suggestion is made by Julius H. Barnes, speaking for the Institute for Public Service. The college tuition fee does not represent more than a small part of what each student costs the institution, being kept at a merely nominal figure so that a liberal education may be within the means of poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that...
...secretary have struggled with the increasing difficulties until completely overwhelmed with their enormity; their cries for help have echoed in the empty rooms, and have penetrated into the Yard and the various dormitories. But the ears of the collegiate body and of the authorities have failed to catch the cogent demand of the tones. No assurances of aid, at any rate, had arrived in April...
...Advocate grinders cease because they are few, or is there some cogent reason why the current issue is so destitute of contents? Besides the editorials and book review but five small contributions in verse and one in prose make up the number, which is meagre indeed when one recalls past Advocates of five and six pieces and thirteen or fourteen contributions in verse. However, it is not of quantity that we ought to judge, or are to judge, but of quality,--quantum meruit...
...Transfers will be effected from one company to another where necessary; but applications for transfer should not be submitted except for cogent reasons, as such transfers seriously affect the efficiency and organization of a company...
...cause of general complaint against college men. The person who has not a university training almost invariably judges the man who has by his ability to express himself, orally and in writing. It is surprising to many business men how few recent college graduates can write even clear and cogent business letters. The work of Mr. Hersey in the Business School has shown that even men who have added to their undergraduate work two years of professional training,--who may, if they wish, write "A.B., M.B.A." after their names,--are in danger of not being able to write good business...