Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should assert our nationality and prevent further aggressions...
...does nothing but study. The same semiopprobrium attaches to each. Because a man does any work he apt to become 'non-fashionable' and there is generally an end to him." This may be true during the first two years of the college course, but we venture to assert that later in the course the society men fall and the grinds and the semi-grinds rise in the estimation of the college world. The writer also forgets the existence of several popular senior and junior societies, membership in which demands either literary work or high scholarship...
...announcement has been industriously circulated that Professor Arthur M. Marsh of the University of Kansas has been appointed Smith Professor of Belles-Lettres and of French and Spanish at Harvard. The authorities do not deny the statement but will not assert it as a fact. Mr. Marsh has resigned his position and will go abroad to study for two years on a full salary. He graduated here in 1883 and is under thirty years of age. He is said to be a man of great ability and was at one time thought of for the presidency of the Kansas University...
...possible to find a member of the Glee or of the Banjo Club who does not speak in highest terms of the kindnesses shown the clubs in the cities visited, and who does not assert that, in spite of fatigue, he enjoyed every minute of the ten days of the tour...
Henry Cabot Lodge spoke eloquently of Harvard and Harvard's name. We are not here to assert that we are the only representatives of Harvard, but to correct the false impression of the Independent meeting. The college is not the property of any one, but is devoted to the truth alone. Rich, of the Law school, spoke at length, stating the proportion of protectionists in college compared well with the free traders. The meeting ended with a stirring speech by Gov. Long...