Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sell their votes. The last need no consideration. The second class comprises the men who continue at all times in unswerving adherence to their party, and whose support renders abuse of political privilege possible. How different is the role of the men of independent action! They may assert their independence without relinquishing their political beliefs, as proved by the Democratic lawyers of New York who refused to support Judge Maynard; and by their very independence they compel parties to take up worthy issues in the hope of gaining or retaining such voters...
...have since been reassured by Captain Waters that Newton did nothing out of the way and that if he in any way hurt Brewer it was entirely unintentional on his part. We are very glad to free Newton from the charge of ungentlemanly playing because we can now assert with the greatest confidence and with unalloyed pleasure the Pennsylvania's whole attitude was as manly and sportsmanlike as could have been desired. We have learned of two or three little things that happened during the game which strengthens us in our good opinion of her team. After Emmons was hurt...
...goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits...
American society lacks individuality. There is an artificiality in it all that deprives it of life and freedom. In the various grades of society, aristocracy and democracy are prone to assert themselves to excess. A man who emphasizes his aristocracy shows that he is ignorant of the true position of aristocracy; the man who boasts of his democracy does the greatest harm to the cause of democracy...
...making a general survey of the field it is safe to assert that Yale's strength this year will lie in the hammer throw, the pole vault, the high jump, the mile walk, and the half-mile run, with a sure chance of one place in the bicycle race and every...