Word: argumentativeness
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...university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they...
...weakness for us lies in the lack of plentiful and well-trained material to draw from. As far as relates to rowing this fault has been remedied by the institution of class races and of permanent class crews. If follows as a legitimate conclusion from the Crimson's argument, we think, that the establishment of class nines should be undertaken, in order to furnish well-trained candidates for the 'Varsity nine, as well as for the equally important purpose of affording to a larger number of men a constant chance for sport...
...true of young women.') - 'I have seen letters written by graduates of Harvard College that would disgrace a boy of ten. (Of graduates of the Annex I am not yet prepared to speak.) Whatever the liberally educated man (or woman) should or should not know, no argument is needed to show that he (or she) should be able to write good English.' Professor Hill has that first quality of a good teacher, the power of holding a startled attention. His keen-edged sentences oblige one not only to listen but to believe; for his vigorous style is clearly the natural...
...earth could compel the delivery up to a riotous graduate of his diploma after the reserved power of revocation had been exercised. . . . The writer assumes that the college intends to vote degrees absolutely, and then to take them away, and it is on this assumption alone that his argument rests. If such were the claim of the corporation, it would logically put itself in the position of asserting its power to revoke today degrees given twenty years ago, but it is hardly necessary to say that no such absurdity is implied in the vote of the corporation and overseers...
...reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students...