Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shown by charts, but the testimony of those who have known both sides, is not to be doubted. If Harvard wishes to put more meaning into the reasoning of Mr. Page, and to render his figures even more expressive than they are at present, let her assert an intelligent and consistent manhood...
...accommodations are limited by the funds that are forthcoming. If every one who appreciates this revived institution will become a recruiting agent, larger quarters can be obtained, more papers placed on file, and the accommodations increased. We do not beg for support for the reading-room, but we do assert most emphatically that it can be made a vital source of good in our college, and that all who step forward with their initiation fees will receive full compensation...
...instructors are getting the best result possible out of such a scheme. A comparison of the work done to-day, and the care shown in its criticism, with that of five or ten years ago will go far to justify our statement. Under the circumstances, we feel compelled to assert that the report accepted by the overseers is not only misleading, but is thoroughly unfounded on facts...
...tariff of 1860 is the most complete experiment which the protectionists have made, and it has given a stimulus to native industry such as no other tariff has ever done. It cannot be denied that the country has prospered under it, but it is another thing to assert that there would not have been the same prosperity without it. Protectionists tell us that countries like Ireland, Turkey and Portugal, have failed to prosper on account of free trade, but they neglect to speak of the real causes which have operated to bring about this unfortunate state of affairs. The tariff...
...direction. at least, the authorities are on the lookout for the welfare of the students under their charge,- and in a direction which, we venture to assert, no one has ever suspected. It is the custom of the college to encourage interior decoration by paying the cost of the paper-hanging whenever a student re-papers his room. With this custom in mind a student recently engaged workmen to refit his room. After the work of re-papering was completed, he called upon the proper officer of the college to receive the customary allowance. This functionary expressed a wish...