Word: arguments
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...System at Harvard." Speaking from the standpoint of a former instructor in the college, Mr. Hale states and describes the theory and workings of this system with admirable candor and lucidity, presenting, we think, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy in this respect. The main points in his argument are these : "Harvard College is really more than a college; it is a college plus a body of preparatory schools. Harvard has the good fortune to be fed by sources which are quick to respond to any advance in her requirements, whether in methods or in quantity." Thus...
...done at our own expense. Such force and intelligence as the Review often displays, will go far to advance outside opinion of the intellectual condition of the students at Oberlin College, which the illiberal and often narrow policy of its faculty so frequently tends to diminish. As to the argument itself, against which the Review so eloquently musters the forces of its indignation, we have still to reiterate our belief in its essential truth, although we are bound to admit that its statement is too broad to be applied, in a literal interpretation, to the case of Oberlin...
...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...