Word: argumentativeness
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...Times thinks that the proportion of physicians to population in this country is one to five hundred, which means an average of eight or ten patients to every doctor. In consideration of these facts "the argument in favor of a higher standard of medical attainments is therefore one that concerns the welfare of the profession itself not less than it concerns the public. No better way can, perhaps, be proposed than that which it was the aim of the American Academy of Medicine to establish and foster, viz: a return to the ancient rule of four years' preparatory college training...
...that membership shall mean total abstinence, but as a member can withdraw from the society at any time, he will always have his membership in his own hands, and so will always have his habits in his own hands. Not only will members thus feel open to all sound argument, but what is even more important, the society will thus recognize the only principle of manly conduct, that we must do as we think right, not because of an artificial attachment to a pledge, but because of our own determination so to do; that the force that regulates personal conduct...
...commercial cousin. Does not the college curriculum provide admirable training in the management of tailors' bills and the adjustment of expense accounts for the paternal inspection?" The slight flippancy of that last sentence may be disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for third Forensic: Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals? Are there any other differences between prose and poetry than those of rhythm and meter? Ought members of the Cabinet to be responsible to Congress? Give Burke's argument in his speech on American Taxation (Burke's Works, Vol. II.) Section 1, today; Section 2, Feb. 28; Section 3, March 7; Section 4, March...
...native American idea, and can reasonably be only applied to the preparatory school and the pseudo-college. Now for two weeks the correspondence columns of the Nation have been principally given over to supplements and rejoinders to this article by interested readers. Naturally the conclusive weight of argument has been with the advocates of the European or Harvard system, since every logical consideration is in its favor, and the forum of the Nation is rarely blessed by the stimulating presence of that class of gentlemen whose chief delight is in tearing to pieces anything that remotely hints of any imitation...