Word: argument
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine will play Princeton this afternoon. The indications point to a close an exciting game. If Harvard is defeated - a contingency by no means improbable - the students can have the satisfaction of feeling that their own listlessness was the cause of the disaster, argument and attempts at persuasion have proved ineffectual. A series of victories might arouse the enthusiasm which would then be useless; but the present situation which calls for that enthusiasm is unable to obtain...
...opening piece of the April number by Francis A. Walker, is an interesting argument on the proposition that the source of business profits is in the intellectual abilities of each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm...
ENGLISH B.Theme XI, will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument...
ENGLISH B.Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument...
Theme X. will be due on Tuesday, April 5. Subject: An Exposition. Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument. For Themes X. and XI. may be substituted a Double Theme, of not less than ten pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument. The Double Theme will be due on Tuesday, April...