Word: assenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...action of the Advisory Board on Debating of Harvard University has brought up again the question of coaching of debating teams, and in view of the fact that at the conference of representatives of Harvard, Princeton and Yale held last May I gave my assent to a guarded expression of opinion that there was a possibility of abuse in faculty coaching, it may not be out of place to give my opinions on this subject at somewhat greater length, especially as they are in radical disagreement with those of Harvard's representatives...
...Dean of Harvard College, the Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, the Regent, the Chairman of the Athletic Committee, and I, being the officers present at last Friday's conference, assent to the experiment on celebrations of athletic victories proposed in the letter which the students present at the conference subsequently addressed to me. The success of the experiment is of course to be ullimately judged by the College authorities...
There never can be one creed wide enough to cause dogmatic unity. Ritual unity demands universal assent to certain rites, but different men demand different rites. The same reason applies to ecclesiastical unity and its impossibility. The various divisions of the church express and satisfy the religious differences of men. The different sects are, however, slowly changing and approaching each other. All denominations are in a sense transient, reflecting as they do the necessities of the social mind and life, and they change with time. The extreme peculiarities are first modified, and thus it is that the sects are drawing...
...Watson is still negotiating with the Cornell authoritics concerning the Harvard-Cornell boat race to be rowed next spring. It is understood that the arrangements have been practically settled and that Mr. Watson is soon to put his report before the Athletic Committee for the assent of that body before final settlement...
...suggestion of the Harvard men, that no letter should be written by either side. The agreement was to be left exactly as if it had been brought about as the result of a perfectly friendly meeting between representatives of the two universities. The Harvard men undertook to get the assent of the requisite authorities to give it validity, and a game on November 9 or 16, on neutral college grounds, seemed almost a certainty. After a delay of about ten days information was received from one of the Harvard men that it would be necessary to bring a member...