Word: argument
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...past two weeks the team has been holding practice debates three times a week with the second team, which is made up of E. R. Lewis '08 J. W. Russell 2L., and I. L. Sharfman '07. During these debates they have materially strengthened their argument, and, aided by suggestions from Professor Winter, have improved very much in form. Practice will continue until next Wednesday...
...armies occupied on each the three days of the battle, and then described the battle and General Lee's retreat. He explained the decisive character of the conflict by referring to the session of the English House of Commons on the eve of the battle, when, after an argument extending far into the night, it was decided to wait before formally recognizing the Confederate government...
Clear and logical argument characterized the trials and the speaking was forcible. The team is a very strong one, all three of its members having at various times been winners of the Coolidge Prize. Elder won the prize in the trials for the team that defeated Yale last spring and was a members of that team. G. J. Hirsch won it when he made the team that debated against Princeton last fall...
...Lewis opened the argument for the negative. The plan proposed by the affirmative, he said, is wrong and unjustifiable, in that it compels three classes of society to contribute to the support of one and compels workingmen to pay to the government part of their earnings to be refunded when officials see fit to do so. This places too much power, which is liable to be abused, in the hands of officials, and tends to discourage self-initiative on the part of workingmen...
...This argument was met by J. S. Davis, when he continued the negative discussion. He showed that the plan would be almost impossible for the French government, because of the large debt and the heavy per capita...