Word: argument
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under the present system the president might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality was claimed by the affirmative as a point in favor of the proposed change...
...Rich then closed his argument by proposing a system of election, wherein the country should be divided into electoral districts and each elector chosen separately, to vote separately, not by states as at present. The proposal of this system he claimed to be a very strong argument for the negative...
...that we again call attention to the use of reserved books in the library. Far too often complaints are made that books supposed to be reserved are nowhere to be found. The only legitimate conclusion is that certain unscrupulous students have secreted them for their own personal benefit. No argument, of course, is needed to show the selfishness and injustice of such practices, and yet, after the matter has been repeatedly brought to the notice of the students, the abuse continues. Were not the rules infringed so often the offence might be excused on the ground of thougtlessness, but after...
Some weeks ago the CRIMSON advocated the wearing of the university blazer by the students at large. Since that time the question has assumed a new aspect which is a strong argument for the change. It has become the custom of all the college clubs of a nature at all athletic, to adopt both the 'varsity blazer and cap. This has made the blazers so numerous as to take them from their exclusive use by the nine and crew, and make them only the distinguishing feature of any Harvard athletic organization. This is but the result of a gradual...
...three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...