Word: hominem
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...rabble-rouser egged them on, their legions grew to 4,000 in two riotous evenings (against a force of 32 Yard cops and proctors, augmented during the second demonstration by 25 tear-gas-tossing Cambridge police). Marching on Harvard Square and making the spring night hideous with an ad hominem battle cry-"Latin, Si; Pusey, No!" -the undergraduates got nowhere with a recalcitrant president, who (said the Crimson) would forevermore be "derided as the man who changed alma mater to foster mother...
...then, as an epitaph for this 86th "Vendetta" Congress that at a time when foreign nations, both infant and aged, sought for some cynosure, this Congress was noted for the elevation of personal grudges, the exemplification of the unworthy argumentum ad hominem, far above any rational, sensitive investigation...
...spoke ad hominem and hoped the rest...
...Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with...
...Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life...