Word: argument
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Religious Union meetings begin tonight at Brooks House with an address by the Rev. Washington Gladden, on "Robert Browning's Argument...
...Religious Union. A Short Business Meeting, followed by a paper: Browning's Argument for God. Rev. Washington Gladden. Brooks House...
...Harvard Religious Union. A Short Business Meeting, followed by a paper: Browning's Argument for God. Rev. Washington Gladden. Phillips Brooks House...
...Harvard ideal of debating has two essentials: good "form" and argument backed by evidence. Though "form," or the method of presentation, is not given as great consideration as argument, its importance is always recognized in the selection of judges chosen to pick a team to represent the University. Upon every such board of judges is one who is an authority on platform sheaking. The most approved manner of presentation is the deliberate and undemonstrative in distinction to the oratorical or campaign style. The common trait of the best University debaters of the past has been a faculty of combining with...
...prime consideration in respect to the substance presented is the amount and reliability of the evidence adduced to support each argument. This evidence cannot be too specifle. In the development of a University team it is an axiom that every contention drawn from an outside source be followed by full information as to the source and this even to the detail of a writer's official title or the page and name of the volume quoted. Mere rhetoric and as sertion unaccompanied by proof are considered of slight worth, and while the skiltul use of persuasion is encouraged, the ultimate...