Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a delightful informality is certainly an indication of our changing athletics. One can hardly venture to assert what will take place when seven house crews take to the Charles simultaneously. Perhaps the authorities will find it necessary to provide the shells with ash trays and bottle openers, but at all events one hopes the boats will not degenerate into beer kegs manned by topers...
...three-fourths of the States as proposed by Congress; (2) Article X, which gives the States or the people those powers not definitely delegated to the U. S. by the Constitution nor "prohibited by it to the States." Having thus reviewed the Clark opinion, the Supreme Court concluded: "Appellees assert . . . that the People reserved to themselves powers over their personal liberty and that the legislatures are not competent to enlarge the powers of the Federal Government in that behalf. . . . "But the argument is a complete non sequitur. . . . [Article V] is a grant of authority by the People to Congress...
...second group is composed of those who have accepted the examination system as a established convention, but have accepted it somewhat grimly. Hostile or unreasoning authority has, they assert, arbitrarily set up artificial barriers, and these barriers must somehow be scaled. As victims of this authority tutors and pupils must necessarily develop the cunning and the manoeuvre that will luckily get them past the entrenchments. These tutors admit that it is only a temporary and superficial advantage which they covet for their clientele...
...belabor the pupil, according to modern pedagogy, for not being interested in the subject-matter. The subject-matter must be vivified and personalized for the pupil. If it is to be of any value to him. Similarly, it is taking an unfair view of Detroit City undergraduates to assert wrong headedness on their side in failing to react to sports, dances, debates, and plays. What we do berate, however, is their lack of the initiative displayed by the students of the University of Wisconsin, not long ago, who petitioned the authorities for a drastic revision of the activities program...
...Tobie of Meridale (Pekinese), and their friends, anxiety reigned last week. Above 70th, where Mrs. August Belmont's Lillium von der Til Til (German Police) is but one aristocrat among many, reigned positive consternation. Small comfort, indeed little short of insult, was it for the authorities to assert that no properly muzzled dog need fear for its life...