Word: argumentativeness
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...THURSDAY.Forensics. Research, Exposition, and Argument generally treated. Professor Royce. Sever...
...constant recurrence seems to call for even further notice. The only answer made to complaints on this subject is that the system of long examination is designed to bring to light the men who have failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when it is found that, in many courses, the harder working members of the elective have failed to complete the paper in the time prescribed. Another point to be considered is the effect such an examination has upon a man of nervous temperament, Few can have any conception...
...negative, N. E. Coffin. '85, F. E. E. Hamilton, '87. The speeches of all these gentlemen were very able, and at times eloquent, and no better debate from the principal speakers has been heard this year than was listened to last evening. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants was 15 to 2 in favor of the nagative. When the debate was thrown open to the house the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Sternbergh, '87, and Elgutter, '87; negative, McAfee, '87, Mahaney, '88, Merriam, '86, Garrison, '88, Hammerslough, '88, Saunders, '84, and Griffin...
...powers of heaven deliver us from contact with it! If to gain the championship in foot-ball, in base-ball, or in anything, we must sacrifice the benefits of an elective system like ours, let us never contend for that much coveted prize. This is, we think, the weakest argument that has ever been advanced against the elective system. But we are glad to see that the Record has not the support of the other papers of the college...
...growth. The demands for admission to our colleges cover in regard to classical requirements as much, possibly, as our fathers had, and more than our grandfathers had, when they graduated from college. The writer cites the great growth of Harvard since the adoption of the elective system as an argument in favor of its general adoption among the other leading colleges of the country. Mr. Curtis then unfolds a plan by which the highest aims in education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations...