Word: argumentativeness
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...last number of the Williams Lat. renews the proposal for a new base-ball league, and adds as an argument the fact that Dartmouth is going to leave the league this year. The discussion will be interesting if not profitable...
...them we find it hard not to make comparisons. The Yale Literary Monthly, the Nassau Literary Magazine, the Williams Literary Monthly and the Harvard Monthly are now before us. In looking over the numbers from abroad we are struck with the attempts at depth of thought and at real argument. In many cases the writers have opinions, and show a willingness to express them; in a word they are not afraid of being serious. As a result, the magazines become something more than literary, and please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside...
...however well the undergraduate may understand the relative value of these opinions, his only resource for a sound argument with the "practical" man is a good supply of facts in an available form. To be sure there are many men in this university whose advanced studies in Political Economy and long residence in college give ample means of defence. But there is a much larger class of men who are newly waking up to an interest in these subjects, and, too, there are the freshmen who did not have the chance to attend the Free Trade and Protection lectures last...
...make themselves learned, then their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate...
...ballot on the merits of the question resulted in, affirmative, 21; negative, 31. The principal disputants were F. H. Darling, L. S., and H. E. Fraser, '86, affirmative; and L. McK. Garrison, '88, and S. B. Rogers, L. S., negative. The negative won the victory on skill of argument by a vote...