Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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About the purposes of the Examination System, and about its success or failure in fulfilling these purposes, I have heard much argument; but concerning its effects upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style...
...urged that a subscription to the College Fund is a good way of repaying the College for a part of the benefit which we have received from it. This argument is plausible, but it assumes that the College has not been already paid. I cannot see that a student who pays a monopoly price of $200 a year for four years for a room which is worth $150 at the outside has any large pecuniary debt which he still owes to the College. On the contrary, I think that he should be credited with having paid already a subscription...