Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argument." Other British journalists took it more calmly. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Even the greatest partisans of Churchill and Montgomery must grant General Eisenhower's fair-mindedness and equable temper ... It is an honest, sincere book...
...staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...
Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...
Concerning your article on Neo-Malthusianism, there is a good deal of room for argument about the various points raised...
Said Hutchins: "I think you are teachers. I did not say you were good teachers . . . The argument that you must be good or you wouldn't have readers is ... like telling the disgusted radio listener that he can turn to three other stations and hear . . . programs just as bad ... If the purpose of a university is to have a lot of students, then the university that has the most is the best. If the purpose of a newspaper is to make a lot of money, then the newspaper that makes the most is the best. But I suggest that...