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4. _Resolved_, That American universities should admit women on equal terms with men.

a. Is woman's education as important as man's?

b. Is coeducation a benefit to both s.e.xes?

c. Is coeducation a benefit to the college?

d. Is the desirable system of separate education worth the extra money it costs?

5. _Resolved_, That in the United States there should be an educational test for voting.

a. Is voting a privilege or a natural right?

b. Ought illiterates to be excluded from the polls?

c. Would the test be unfair to any cla.s.s of citizens?

d. Could such a test be easily incorporated into our laws?

6. _Resolved_, That vivisection should be prohibited.

a. Is vivisection of great a.s.sistance to medicine?

b. Is vivisection humane?

c. Is it right for us as human beings to sanction the many forms of needless and excessive cruelty practised by vivisectors?

C. Make a brief introduction to each of the following propositions, defining all words that require definition, explaining the meaning of the proposition, stating the issues, and making the part.i.tion:--

1. All colleges should debar freshmen from partic.i.p.ation in intercollegiate athletic contests.

2. Playing baseball with organizations not under the national agreement should not render athletes ineligible for college teams.

3. ---- College should adopt the honor system of holding examinations.

4. All colleges should abolish hazing.

5. The climate of our country is changing.

6. Macbeth's wife was the cause of his ruin.

7. The Rhodes scholars.h.i.+ps for the United States will accomplish the objects of its founder.

8. National expositions are a benefit to the country.

CHAPTER V

THE INTRODUCTION--BRIEF-DRAWING

Preceding chapters have dwelt on the essential characteristics of the introduction and have shown what it should be like when completed. No one but an expert writer, however, can hope that his argument, in either introduction, discussion, or conclusion, will attain any considerable completeness and excellence without first pa.s.sing through a preliminary form known as the _brief_.

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