Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should have a hearing. The inter-collegiate contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits arising therefrom are confined to a very few - that the "nine," the "eleven," and the "four" or the "eight" form a small proportion of the college; and that hence the manifest evils of inter-collegiate contests are not to be endured for the sake...
...thing is plain. Cornell must again assert itself as independent of any American model, or ever hold itself in its present position. Yale and Harvard are infinitely above us and always will be so, unless we follow a course distinct from theirs. We cannot compete with them on their own grounds. Cornell must take an advanced position, or be left in the lurch...
...Glee Club for ability to sing, or into editorship for inability to write." Now, unfortunately, all college men are not distinguished for wisdom, and some are, perhaps, fools, hence it is not surprising that mistakes do sometimes occur, as they have already occurred. We do not wish to assert that men who cannot sing are chosen members of the Glee Club, but we may venture to say, since the Crimson has referred to this society, that men who can sing have sometimes failed to be chosen members. Then, coming to the question of editorships, it is a notorious fact that...
...have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences...
...near future we do not believe, and it is possible that the "sweet reasonableness of waiting" for this change may, after all, find itself in the pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard among the rest. That Harvard is in any way bound to pervert its generous endowment, founded for exclusive purposes, which it is now faithfully fulfilling, and to admit women to all these privileges, while there...