1. Such a system will lower the scholarship both of those who are exempted from examinations and of those who are not.
2. Such a system will foster dishonesty, jealousy, and conceit.
3. Such a system will deprive those who are exempted from examinations of valuable discipline in preparing for examinations and in taking the examinations.
There are several forms in which the partition may be expressed: it may consist of a single sentence that indicates how the issues are to be answered; it may consist of the issues themselves turned into declarative sentences so that they read in favor of the side being upheld; or it may answer each issue by means of several statements. The following will illustrate the several methods:—
Proposition: Resolved, That football is an undesirable college game.
Issues:
1. Does football benefit or injure the player?
2. Does football benefit or injure the college as a whole?
Partition (negative):
First method.