Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents of our "joining" the court assert the court is the child of the league and the step proposed would inevitably draw us into other commitments to the league; that it is intended by some of its proponents as an entering wedge to the league; that the jurisdiction of the court is not obligatory; and that the strongest nations were the first to denounce the obligatory clause; that there is no provision for the enforcement of its decisions; that other nations can numerically outvote us in the assembly in the election of judges; and that to visualize the court...
Perhaps no Yale faculty member is so well known at Harvard as Dean Brown, and certainly none so universally honored and beloved. But respect for him cannot blind one to the novelty of this defense of an antiquated system. Does Dean Brown mean to assert that the first business of a college is to produce preachers? If he does, the CRIMSON can only say that it disagrees with him. And aside from this implication, is it not probable that incipient persons deliberately choose a college where compulsory religion is the fashion? If so, compulsion itself hardly seems the cause...
Although many a youth now enters college in search of pleasure and finds it, it is absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting...
From the limbo of the almost-forgotten, the Debating Union rears its heal to assert that it will hold an open meeting for all members of the University on next Tuesday. Modelled on the debating unions of Oxford and Cambridge, this organization originally filled a vacant niche in the extra-curriculum world and provided opportunity for informal witty speaking. Last year, following the brief flare of the presidential campaign clubs, its intermittent energy waned again...
...thwart this most fundamental project. There is genuine danger that they will do so unless the practically unanimous approval of the United States becomes sufficiently vocal. I believe the students of our universities, many of whom are already voters and the rest of whom will soon become so, can assert a tremendous influence with the Senate especially by writing personal letters to their own Senators and in other ways bringing to public attention their support of the World Court proposition...