Word: argumentativeness
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In your issue of the 9th instant there appeared among the editorials an article which seemed to me so unjust and so positively fallacious in argument as to require some notice. From a statement made by President Eliot before the New York Harvard Club concerning beneficial endowments to the clerical profession, the HERALD justifies itself in attacking the scholarship system at Harvard...
...attendance at religious exercises. At Cornell we believe the same is true. It is a curious fact that these are the two most prominent examples of university co-education in this country. It may be that the fact is significant and that here may be found a cogent argument either for or against the introduction of co-education at Harvard and Columbia...
...would even be willing to pay a small interest for the privilege was clearly demonstrated. As to the security after the payment of the national debt, the proposed system offered no more difficulty than the question of the national banks, and any objection on this score is therefore no argument against the soundness of the system...
...away from all the others which compose the association that at least two days must be spent in travel for every game that is played. Besides this, bad weather may prevent a game, in which case two long, disagreeable journeys must be made. There is no argument which can be used for the retention of Dartmouth which could not with equal propriety be offered for the admission of Rutgers or Union. Harvard, at least, cares nothing about beating Dartmouth, and is not at all troubled by an occasional defeat...
...question of gate receipts has not been considered for a moment as a conclusive argument in the settlement of the question...