Word: argumentativeness
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...continue urge that it gives vent to a feeling that otherwise would find an outlet in hazing; that it serves to break the ice, to some extent, between the freshmen and the upper classmen; and furthermore, that it is a time honored institution, and that that should be argument enough for its continuance...
That "Bloody Monday" is an institution handed down year after year, and that therefore it should be continued, is no argument in its favor at all. The custom is essentially bad; every influence of it is bad; and the fact that it is bad, whether it be time-honored or not, is reason enough that it be abolished...
...before the minds of Harvard students in order that its recurrence may be prevented. It will be urged, no doubt, that our nine receives the same treatment, and that every other nine is in the same position, when defeated on a field away from home. But is this any argument why this nuisance should not be done away with, or why Harvard should not take the first step in abolishing a proceeding that is without doubt a factor in the much debated ill-feeling in college base-ball...
...nine will play Princeton this afternoon. The indications point to a close an exciting game. If Harvard is defeated - a contingency by no means improbable - the students can have the satisfaction of feeling that their own listlessness was the cause of the disaster, argument and attempts at persuasion have proved ineffectual. A series of victories might arouse the enthusiasm which would then be useless; but the present situation which calls for that enthusiasm is unable to obtain...
...opening piece of the April number by Francis A. Walker, is an interesting argument on the proposition that the source of business profits is in the intellectual abilities of each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm...