Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate a writer on "Favorites and Toadies" has attacked in a very personal way the managers of our various college organizations. I feel assured that many of the statements are exaggerated, to say the least; but it lies with those immediately interested to refute them. I merely write to assert that in regard to the Pierian the insinuation made is false. Our candidates are examined by a regular committee, and if recommended by these they become members by unanimous vote of the Sodality; in order to gain membership by toadying a candidate must therefore today to about twenty...
Wooden toothpicks, it is well known, are an excellent tonic, and serve very readily as a satisfactory substitute for unappetizing soups or meats. The medical "faculty" generally endorse them ; although some, it is true, assert that quills are superior. Indeed, it is to be regretted that the directors do not see their way to the introduction of quill toothpicks as a supplementary or alternative course on the regular bill of fare for wooden ones. Perhaps they will, however, consent to place quill toothpicks upon the order list. I earnestly urge this suggestion upon them...
...girls nearly equal in every respect to the best of those for boys. If these girls' colleges continue to fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think it self-evident that if the methods of studies of Harvard, Yale and our university were conceded to be what was required for the education of girls, they would be speedily adopted...
Both Myers and Robinson assert that Goodwin can run the half-mile against the world...
...there seems to be no material forthcoming to make up the team in future years, and to add to the discomfort of the supporters of the game, several of the finest players will leave next year. With these facts in view, our prospects are threatening. And yet we dare assert that a far greater cause of dissatisfaction among the lacrosse men is the lack of support shown them. In every trip which they have made they have paid their own expenses, receiving a mere nominal sum as their share of the gate-money, and have also furnished their own uniforms...