Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rumors of irregularities in previous years have reached us, and while we have not been able to verify them, we cannot assert that Harvard has in the past been more free from this difficulty than her sister colleges. And even this year it is possible that vague and general promises of financial aid or advantage have been made by irresponsible persons; but the students and graduates, the officers of the athletic associations, and this Committee, all decidedly condemn any such offers, by whomever made...
...college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe to assert from the experience of the physicians practicing in Cambridge that the death rate in college is only about half as high as that of the general community of the same age surrounding it. It is also impossible to collect statistics showing of what diseases college...
...withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement to enter college to play foot-ball and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds...
Over seventy freshmen have been actually in the boats this fall, a fact which it has never been possible to assert before. Although no definite choice has been made, the men now rowing are the ones having the best chance to be selected for the final eight. Not much can be stated positively until the crew candidates among the men now playing football commence to work; but from the present outlook it would seem as if there were material in the class for an excellent crew...
...lecturer said that the most immediate missionary work demanded of the American people is the education of the Negro and Indian. This education must be accomplished along race lines, for the Negro must be made to assert himself before he can take the initial step in civilization. Race prejudice has been fruitful of much good. In that it has aroused the Negro to the necessity of self-assertion; and also because it has aroused the North to the work of education. Its effect is seen in the forty millions of dollars contributed by the North for this purpose since...