Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point of fact it is likely that the athletic funds as a whole would be better off if there were no H. A. A. tickets. University athletics are not a business enterprise to be conducted on the principle of making all that you can, which is that of the argument "assuming that the cost is greater, why not increase prices...
...experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs and athletics and other elements that are interwoven in the sum total of elements which go to make Harvard's world; and let us not introduce into this discussion any hasty argument on the qualifications which of course exist upon every general statement that may be made. If we are to be heroic, we must, first of all be frank...
...strength of the Princeton team lay in the consistency and flawlessness of its argument, due to the care with which it had prepared its speeches. The Harvard speeches, on the other hand, attempted a bolder attack, and seemed more mature in their delivery. The best speaking of the evening was done by R. B. Fosdick of Princeton. Of the Harvard debaters B. V. Kanaley spoke with great fluency and wit, and A. Tulin with commendable power. Princeton's essential argument emphasized the necessity of the development of the individual for his particular career, while Harvard claimed that a student...
...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...
...paid on gradually, or made gradually as at present. In the way all those benefited would be contributing some part of the expense. It may be suggested that the Stadium was built by the present classes, and the expense should be stood by them. This is rather a mean argument, and if used, the answer is that the students did not decide to build the Stadium, but those higher in authority...