Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient to bend her honor into the lie that made Sally say, "I will not," proud and slender at the altar in her royal blue broadcloth riding habit with glass buttons...
...however, where class rushes are still as popular, where Freshman fights are as great a ceremony as ever before the regime of football. So if President Butcher considers football as the lesser of two evils he is merely adding it to the greater. His refutation of Mr. White's argument is not sound. It is possible that he has found the game a preventative for hazing in his own college and if such is the case his difficulties are removed. But in other colleges the situation remains the same. The "blow-off valve of collegiates" in many cases has been...
...spite of the fact that several famous writers claim it as their birthplace the actual percentage of the American lit Mr. Mencken says that the dial is turnerary world living in Chicago is smalling toward the south and quotes names to prove it. But Mr. Hansen's argument remains invincible in at least one point--publishers cheques are drawn on New York banks. Other delights may pass from Manhattan life but this economic necessity remains...
...University debating season will open tonight when the opening argument is launched in the triangular debate with Amherst" and Dartmouth. The question is, "Resolved: That co-education in a form similar to that in a state colleges is advisable in the colleges of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League...
Last night Professor Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College faced an excited and sceptical crowd of Debating Union members, swept them off their feet by his speech, and won them over to his side by sheer power of oratory and convincing argument. The final vote of the audience was 81 to 25 in his favor, with 29 not voting...