Word: argument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objections raised seem to suggest that the opponents of the amendment fail to give the general good its due supremacy. That the same candidate can not, if rejected for one office, stand for the next, is an argument that will have force with the candidate himself rather than with the club as a whole. That the postponement of the election for a few days will harmfully prolong the excitement can hardly have been seriously meant. That, after all, it is better that only those interested should vote, is a proposition the fallacy in which is evident when we consider...
...Prospect Union team presented a s: rong and connected argument. Though they spoke with less ease than their opponents, they were very strong in rebuttal, especially in their closing speeches. The speeches of the Union were on the whole strong both in matter and in form...
...interest shown in the first two joint debates between the Forum and the Union is a good argument for the continuance of such debates in the future. Although there was not a large audience last night and although the speaking itself was not of a particularly high order, a good number of men availed themselves of the chance to speak and the affair gave that practice in speaking in competition which is so generally needed. Such a debate certainly offers just as good practice as one between the Union or the Forum and some outside club, it gives a chance...
...Williams '97 and W. B. Truesdell '97 were the principal speakers for the Forum and W. Denman L. S. and H. W. Beal '97 for the Union. The affirmative adopted the main line of argument that the action of Greece is justifiable from the point of view of her own interests, of the interests of Crete and the interests of humanity. The negative claimed that Greece does not represent humanity but is acting for her own aggradizement; and that in doing this she is running the risk of involving all Europe in a war, a far worse evil than...
...sought the cause in our own defects. But I have also heard many who have tried in one way or another to excuse the result. There has been a tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence, and to ascribe their defeat to incomprehensible blindness on the part of the judges or even to some "trick" of the other side. Is not all this rather a dangerous, not to say unmanly way of dodging a square look at the facts...