Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right then, we will not get a license." Four days later they returned, said they had consulted Assistant Corporation Counsel George Cowie, had been told they might "affirm" instead of swear...
...affirm with a clear conscience that Italy in this matter has done her duty toward civilized nations...
...failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about the new low struck by Princeton teams--these are among the considerations which have led the Princetonian to affirm a belief which is widely held on the Campus. The specific causes of present conditions we have tried to set forth in a number of previous editorials. That they are not peculiar to Princeton is evidenced by similar testimony from the Williams Record, the Dartmouth, the Yale News, the Harvard...
Neither of these decisions on Harvard's part are broadly influential. They take cognizance of the variety of forces bearing on the whole athletic situation. No one would dare affirm that Harvard sports are simon pure. The privileges given to players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...