Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grant that these changes did take away or lessen some objectionable features; they must also grant, therefore, that further changes in the same direction would take away more objectionable features, and that if sweeping enough changes could be made, all objections to the game would be removed. The Committee assert that such changes can not or will not be made. How does the Committee know this? They do not know it; they merely think it, and they do not support their bare opinion with arguments...
...safe to assert that it would be difficult to find a more uproarious place at night than the environs of Harvard, and especially of Harvard square. The noise and clamor continue until alter midnight. It is a mixture of noises compounded of passing bands, cheering, yells and street car bells. There is at least one sufferer who has found scarcely any sleep, or opportunity or mood for study for the last two weeks. Cambridge outrivals some of the worst cities of the west. This is an unfortunate fact, especially after what has been heard of Eastern culture and refinement...
...large part of the class of '84 entered the Law School this year. We venture to assert that out of this number fully one half could not hold the interest of a jury of their intellectual inferiors in a speech on any subject of half an hour's length; and that simply because they are lacking in some or all the requisites to speech-making, of a good voice, good enunciation, and a good presence. Yet, if these men are to become anything but mere office-lawyers they must acquire these things, and acquire them by the hardest sort...
...article in another column, our crew is doing finely at New London and improving every day. Although the changes in the boat during the last month have caused a fear to spring up in the minds of some that our crew would be weakened thereby, boating men assert that the changes have strengthened the boat, and when we remember the changes which took place a year ago, just before the race, we may rest assured that the present changes will no doubt bring about as good results. Although the Columbia race, which occurs today, is not expected to occasion...
...later, and that Harvard should not miss the opportunity of taking the lead among the colleges in introducing this innovation. Some even go so far as to take exceptions to the implication that the catalogue of men who have received degrees from Harvard is printed in Latin, and assert that the language used is a sort of mongrel composed of English and Latin. If we cannot have pure Latin we can at least have pure English. In English there would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent...