Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less robust than might have been expected. There is a strong current of student protest. Three members of this year's varsity, headed by the renowned "Albie" Booth, have joined with Coach Stevens in deploring the exposure of first-team men to the grave risk of lost games. They assert that Yale teams "have been winning teams for sixty years," and they bespeak tender solicitude for a "splendid record" and a "noble heritage." The Yale Daily News fears "the complete obliteration of Yale's athletic traditions." The Harvard CRIMSON and the Daily Dartmouth, on the other hand, support the Yale...
...well for Governor Judd to assert his opinion on the matter, for to have allowed the case to proceed through the indefinite and sympathetic channels of the law would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task...
Last week, while engaged in an editorial campaign against the American Legion, the Yale News branched off to assert with dogmatic pessimism that American politics are "just too dirty" and so corrupt that all self-respecting college men refuse to consider them as a worthy occupation. The editorial voices perfectly the feeling of hazy helplessness which overcomes the average undergraduate upon viewing with superficial haste the maze of American government as a possible occupation...
Senator Hawes (angrily) : Do you mean to assert that Senator Cutting and I are cowards...
...keep Yale rooters in their proper role of subjection, Coach Stubbs' skaters must win in no uncertain fashion as the Yale sextet has polished off the Hanoverians on three occasions this season 13 to 4, 4 to 3, and 7 to 4. Another team to assert its superiority over the visitors is Princeton. The Tigers put on one of their best performances in a 4 to 0 victory...