Word: argumentativeness
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...subject is somewhat complicated, I shall attempt merely to bring forward a single strong argument, which seems to me clearly to settle the question...
...instructor, who should have been on hand at nine o'clock, wearied himself exceedingly in pointing out, the evening before, the utter want of practicability in the instructor who, a few weeks ago, forgot the hour at which his examination began. So wearied grew our philosopher with his metaphysical argument, that he was really unable to appear the next morning until ten o'clock...
...stroke of 36 to a minute. Whichever wins, we shall probably have a long newspaper discussion, attempting to prove that the stroke of the winning crew is the better stroke. One trial proves nothing. the successful stroke for a number of years will be a more convincing argument...
...necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
...argument naturally divides itself into two parts: the effects on the writer and on the "writee." First, of the latter...