Word: argument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Matthew Lowrie made the last opening speech for Princeton and the negative. A large part of his argument was intended to show that the Italian race is not undesirable as a whole, and not a menace to our institutions. In only four cities, he declared, have investigations of the slums been made, and these investigations have all been entirely overestimated. In New York there is supposed to be a slum population of 360,000 but the investigation took in only 26,000. This is a debate of facts, not of theories...
...tradition is broken in perhaps its most prominent features,- in flowers high up, and a "free-for-all." A substitute was tried last year, and was admittedly not satisfactory. Any further attempt to remodel these exercises means simply getting farther and farther away from the "traditional" argument The ladies who came to see the Tree exercises would not in any case see the genuine article, but merely a revised and abridged edition with the characteristic feature left out. I understand the value of traditions to be in their entity; remnants are very apt to be farcical...
...preparation than has been provided heretofore. The extra time therefore which must elapse before the team gets down to work need not be wasted. In the second trial ten or twelve minutes will be allowed for each speech. Judgment can thus be passed on ability to deliver a sustained argument, skillfully massed, and showing some grasp of the subject. Enough men will then be kept to carry out, with special reference to rebuttal, a set debate as a final test...
...than ill placed. It is also possible that if buildings continue to be placed as now, persons may not want to build at all at Cambridge. Hence the desire to have the main lines upon which blocks of buildings may be set fixed once and for all. No stronger argument for the position of the Overseers is needed than a look at the irregularities of the present grounds. The old Yard gives the impression of a tolerably regular quadrangle-but Sever Hall is not symmetrically disposed towards other buildings; the Art Museum and the Chapel jog each other...
...chief argument in favor of the change has been that it will broaden the influence of the University, and will tend to unite the departments; the argument on the other side has been that the graduates of the schools either owe allegiance to other colleges or have not had the advantages of college training...