Word: argument
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decision was rendered, it is impossible to tell which side presented the stronger case. On the whole the Forum's chief advantages were in the form of her speakers and in their presentation of a consistent comprehensive line of argument; on the other hand, their rebuttal work was unexpectedly weak. The Prospect Union men made more attempt at direct rebuttal and their first man was the best of the evening in this respect. In form, they were all rather crude but they were distinctly ready speakers. In the matter of argument they differed in a marked degree. The first speaker...
...Forum men spoke in the following order: E. M. Gregory '97, F. C. Gratwick '97, W. B. Truesdell '97. Gregory was good in form but rather too general in his argument. He made one or two contradictions which left an opening for the negative. Gratwick had good form and made an effective speech. His chief fault was in neglecting to rebutt the argument of the speaker before him. Truesdell showed careful preparation and made some telling points; he lost greatly in effectiveness, however, by a strained, unnatural delivery...
...judges might possibly have been influenced, though not prejudiced, in favoring the side of the question most evidently the right and just one. Possibly the mistake made by the Pennsylvania debaters consisted in placing too much stress upon oratorical expression and not enough upon the matter of the argument...
...comes down to the ground of common-sense. In the first place, by no means all of the Boston papers pay their correspondents by space-rates. I can mention two notable exceptions, the Advertiser and the Herald. In this way at least a good part of the writer's argument falls flat: the correspondents of these papers can have no incentive for "padding." In the next place, I know that there is not a single Harvard correspondent who is not loyal to his university-and more loyal than those carping critics who tear out imaginary gray hairs over the result...
...fair to assume that in addition to the twenty-five percent of the class who spread, there are not more than twenty-five per cent who receive so many invitations to spreads that the business of entertaining and being entertained is, for them, exhausting. Granting, for the sake of argument, what is by no means established, that all these men desire a large season of festivity, and that a three-day celebration would be less of a strain than the present one day, we have still to consider the case of the other fifty per cent-the fellows who neither...