Word: argument
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...romantic and realistic points of view. The battle opens with the realist protesting against the archaism and viciousness of the theory that the gentleman pays because he is more liberally supplied with funds. There is generally no attempt to refuse this realistic contention, and from this point the argument conventionally assumes something of the following form...
...major argument favoring the hegira of the Freshman classes to the Yard as that it is, after all, the logical and practical place for the incoming men to live. A great deal has been said about the advantages of living in the Yard and the dubious contagion of its past and present associations. The intangible benefit derived would certainly be more profitable to the susceptible Freshman than to the blase Senior. With most of the upperclassmen separated from the College office proper by an intermediary House master, the Freshman class will be the almost important group directly under University Hall...
Dismissing all arguments based upon sentiment and tradition, the former as irrelevant with the far-reaching ramifications of the entire House plan, the latter as vulnerable due to the brief existence of the Freshman dormitories and the absolute lack of a Senior monopoly on the Yard dwellings, the paramount argument in opposition to moving the Freshmen is based upon the success of the present system of Freshman dormitories. This success, however, is purely accidental, the dormitories having been built more with an eye for such a plan as Mr. Harkness has made possible in conjunction with a desire to disintegrate...
Into Congress last week overflowed the financial argument between Federal Reserve Board and Wall Street (TIME, Feb. 18). A mingled outburst of oratory, ethics, provincialism and a little economics was the result. The prevailing sentiment was strongly against the speculator. Since, however, the very Senators and Representatives who were most inclined to view Wall Street as the heart of the money octopus also regarded the Federal Reserve System as at least a tentacle of the same monster, the banker was scolded while the broker was flayed...
...Money, Anti-Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young...