Word: pros
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover it is plain that with the difficulty of the choice, the responsibility increases and it becomes more necessary to weigh the pros and cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind the obvious advantage of having a larger range of subjects included in the instruction given, there lies that deeper advantage...
...following is from the first issue of the Williams Fortnight: "The pros and cons of this question have been thoroughly discussed both by the college press and the outside world, and the general verdict is that compulsory chapel must go. A student can gain no spiritual advantage from attendance at a service against his will, and he is, moreover, provided he has reached his majority, better qualified to judge concerning such a matter, than the faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity...
...advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages of a collegiate education remains entirely without the province of the debate. Our four great universities, with their many departments and multifarious courses of study, offer a field where each one can settle for himself the pros and cons of the Adams controversy and lay out his course accordingly. To Harvard, Mr. Adams' alma mater, with its complicated elective system, his strictures are least of all applicable today...