Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...position seem to have occurred only to Mr. Palmer. His first specification is that they are all New Englanders. This is not quite true literally as Dean Albers is a native of Illinois. It is true, however, that their inerests are essentially here in New England. If this argument of Mr. Palmer's has any logic it must be that he believes that because they are New Englanders they will be in sympathy wih New England ideas, that Harvard represents New England ideas and that these gentlemen were so imbued with their New England provincialism and their admiration for Harvard...
...influence of the women's vote in the approaching elections can hardly be gauged with accuracy. It will undoubtedly prove to the few remaining skeptics the fallacy of the argument that women would exercise the franchise under fundamentally different political conceptions from men. But the important fact remains,--that Democracy has been vindicated as a national institution, compassing the prerogatives of any individual state or states, by the approaching advent of several million women into our National political life...
...argument for his nomination does not stop there. One of the great organs of British Liberalism, the London Nation, recently declared that Mr. Hoover was the ablest man that the war had produced. Of the men who were without high reputation when the conflict began, there can be no question that he is the most commanding figure that emerged out of this welter of the nations. Such ability is not to be held lightly at a time like this. The American people are going to need it, and need it badly...
...support of the oft recurring argument over the relative merits of western and eastern football, George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, recently said to The Wake: 'I think the best eleven of the Big Ten for the last four or five years would have beaten the best eastern eleven. I do not mean decisively, but beaten it. By eastern eleven I also exclude those teams recruited by means no longer approved, but include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...University debating team will meet the representatives of Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, next Monday, February 23, with the following subject for argument: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb plan as provided in the Sims bill for the operation of the railroads." The team chosen from the University to uphold the negative will consist of L. E. Thomas '20, M. J. Donner '21, and L. Dennis Occ. The alternates have not yet been chosen...