Word: argumentativeness
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...pass without comment. "The proposal," says the Clipper, with an insight of which no one not thorougly imbued with the spirit of "professionalism" would be capable of displaying, "has a very suspicious taint of gate-money influences about it." Now, we beg leave to state that the argument of increased gate receipts has never entered the discussion at all, except in the most casual manner, and moreover, when the question comes up for discussion it will hardly be taken into serious consideration...
Wednesday's Advertiser contains an exceedingly interesting article on "Political Economy at Harvard," being an argument for the extension of the subject in the college by added electives and a plea for aid to the university for making this improvement. Political economy, the writer claims, is the most popular study at Harvard and in importance is second to none. It is rumored, he says, that on the return of Professor Dunbar in September the teaching force in this department will be reduced to one, that one being Professor Dunbar. The corporation offering no inducements to Dr. Laughlin to remain...
...Yale papers seem entirely to fail to understand our position in regard to the race question. Last year, after we had sent our challenge, they replied with a conditional acceptance, which caused much argument and some ill feeling. The condition named by them was that the race should be rowed upon a certain date. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the conditions for the race were not agreed upon until the last moment, our crew was obliged to yield a point at the very start, and consequently had to row the race with the moral disadvantage of having...
Last Saturday's Crimson contained a strong plea for early class races. We think that the matter is worthy of the closest attention on the part of the executive committee and should be settled at once. The best argument that can be urged in favor of the change is past experience. In 1881 although weather permitted the race to be rowed on the day set, yet all the crew men, and especially seniors, were hurried in their preparations for the final examinations. Last year, when a delay of six days was caused by bad weather, the race was brought...
...closing argument for the prosecution in the Dickson star-route bribery case was made yesterday, and that for the defence began. A decision will probably be reached today...