Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affairs is placed in the hands of the Freshman union Committee appointed from each dormitory at the beginning of the year, thereby eliminating all necessity for any officers whether nominal or active. The fact that the Freshman Class may be more of a "unit" than the others is no argument for electing three men whose only service will be to provide their pictures for ornamenting a frontispiece in the Red Book...
...that it be definite the Senate would be better advised as to the nature of the word prestige if it took definite action on relatively important matters than if it quibbled sonorously over trifles, which, as Barry pointed out yesterday, even Senators have admitted to be true. Such an argument, however, neglects eternal verities. After all, to what end lame ducks and hueylongs? There are only twenty-three days left. On with the dance...
...Drive: "On opening night, have supposedly shell-shocked veteran simulate a seizure. Use this as a basis of letters to editors of all newspapers, arraigning the idea of bringing back the horrors of war. Follow up with a dozen letters from legionnaires, etc. defending the picture as an argument for peace...
...result of a close decision in the final argument of the Ames Competition last Friday evening, the high-light of the winter activities in the Law School, the Harlan Club was awarded first prize of $300, and the Brandies Club a second prize of $200. After the last argument, the three judges, all eminent jurists of their respective states, went into conference for a period of about 15 minutes, and then "Chief Justice" C. W. Parker, justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, after bringing to the attention of the audience of over 1000 people jammed into the court...
...most important criticism of Mr. Harris's argument can be made where they are most vital: in the field of modern literature. His assertion that the chief values of modern civilization, science, democracy, and so on, are adequate for tragedy of serious proportion goes shipwreck not only because those values are inferior in kind to the social values of the Greeks, of Dante, and of the Renaissance, but also because they are questioned by us at an unparalleled degree, especially by contemporary writers. Ibsen did not, as Mr. Harris think, write "Ghosts," or "Hedda Gabler," on the basis...