Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Reason, avaunt! I only state...
...final argument, that intercollegiate contests would promote the cause of education, if true, is certainly an admirable reason for their adoption. But that truth we fail to see. The writer has certainly proved it nowhere; he only claims it. And there is surely something weak in an argument which says because boating was made intercollegiate and flourished, that therefore education will be promoted under a system of intercollegiate literary contests...
...Bowdoin Orient has no exchange department. Perhaps it abstains, with good reason, from criticising others in the hope they will follow its example...
...clothing stolen from Holworthy 17 was found by the police at a pawnbroker's shop in Boston. There is good reason to expect the thief's detection...
Loose thinking upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...