Word: argument
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...latest number of "The Advocate." This issue has the merit of variety; it ranges from the flippant to the serious. The thoughtful editorial, prefaced by a letter from Professor Francke, discusses the evils of specialization, and suggests a remedy. The editor is to be praised for eliminating from the argument the irrelevant question of the alleged "Germanization" of Harvard. What care we whether we are imitating the Germans? For us an academic practice is good, not because it is German, but because it suits American conditions and carries out American ideals...
Today, however, the Freshman debaters are carefully coached by an experienced University debater, who, without destroying the individuality of the speakers, trains them in the methods of investigation, argument, and presentation, that go to make up the Harvard debating system. And there is no better means of inculcating that system than by the earnest work, which accompanies any contest with Yale. We trust, therefore, that the debate tonight will be the first of a long and continued series of such contests between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen...
...will speak in the order named. The Princeton debaters will be R. J. Sterret '07, M. F. Fry '09, and R. S. Sidebotham '07, who will also speak in that order. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for a main speech in which to present his argument and five minutes for rebuttal...
...more strictly Harvard part of the number, the chief article is that of M. S. McN. Watts on "The Athletic Situation." This is one more protest against the assumed hostility to intercollegiate games of the special investigating committee. Its argument, like that of most students writing on this topic, is vitiated by assuming that wholesome competition stands or falls with the intercollegiate system. The excessive emphasis here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students...
...President regrets that athletics have become so largely the business of college life. Mr. Reid frankly takes "the football business" as his subject. His argument in favor of an organized and salaried coaching system is thoroughly sound provided we admit his premise that football now ought to be a business. He explains what has been done, and outlines what remains to be done. If we are to succeed, we must give up all notion of a desultory scheme of amateur coaching. "We did not start out," he says, "with the expectation that after only two years of work...