Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first argument will take place February 7 when the Scott Club meets the Chafee Club on the subject of Equity. Professor Beale will be Chief Justice...
...Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
...Springfield Student observes in a recent editorial that the "colleges of the country are getting away from the mechanical, statistic-cramining type of debating where the forensic gladiators met and matched weighty booklearned argument on subjects in which they were not in the least interested and have turned to subjects of interest to the undergraduate." As one sample of the kind of question the Student has in mind, the Springfield editor refers to a future debate with Leland Stanford at which the resolution will be "That the world has more to fear than to hope for from Sapience...
...gentlemen met in rational argument last week and settled a railway dispute by giving $15,000,000 additional wages each year to the 89,000 conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code...
...debt for board and lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance...