Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field arouses a new activity among the candidates for the University and class teams. This seems, therefore, a proper time to speak of one or two things which seem worthy of notice. In the first place, there is an unaccountable lack of interest in wrestling. We would venture to assert that there is no other college in the country which boasts of an athletic association that cannot show better wrestling than has been seen at Harvard for the past three years. One reason for this is, perhaps, the failure of the Gymnasium authorities to provide any facilities for the practice...
...will have the practical effect of shutting out Liberal Christians. Does any sane man suppose that, before signing the constitution, a new member would search out with a pair of magnifying glasses its "fair" meaning? The constitution does not yet say that Liberal Christians may be admitted, and I assert that it does not yet dare to say so. This it is that places the Brethren in such an awkward position. A "Unitarian minister," indeed, certifies that a Unitarian may join the Brethren with a clear conscience. But who is a better interpreter of the constitution, its own words...
...COME Muse, let's sing of mail-boxes." And why not of mail-boxes? Yet some may be inclined to advocate the claims of the lamp-posts as superior. They may assert that the box is but a mere dependent; for though we find many lamp-posts without mail-boxes, we rarely, if ever, come upon a mail-box not connected with a lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks...
...Library on Sunday suggests the further step of opening it also during the evening. That there is a demand for this we hardly need to point out. The only sound objection is in the danger from fire; but good authorities, both in and out of the Library, repeatedly assert that danger from fire exists no more here than in the Boston Public Library, which, it is well known, is attended in the evening by a class of readers far more careless than students. Moreover, the electric light has been introduced with success in many public buildings. Could it be done...
Excepting those who had acquired proficiency as speakers before coming to college, and those who have taken private lessons since entering, I venture to assert that the instruction in elocution has not been of any perceptible benefit to a single student. The primary cause of this is the meagreness of the instruction given, and the secondary cause is the method adopted by the instructors. Fifteen minutes a week to the student, if he be a Senior or Junior, is little better than nothing, and unless a different arrangement is made next year, it would seem advisable to keep...