Word: assertive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard-Yale debate is now little more than a month distant and the announcement of the trial debate for the choice of Harvard's representatives reminds us forcibly that this year it is of the utmost importance for the University to assert her old supremacy in debating. It is hard to admit, but granted it must be, that for the past two years Harvard has made but little progress in debate in comparison with her rivals. It may be that we reached a climax beyond which it is difficult to go, several years since, and that the other colleges, where...
...debating season is now fairly under way, and intercollegiate contests are beginning to loom up in the future, it seems to be a fitting time to consider the prospects for the year. It is of the utmost importance that the University shall assert once more its former superiority in debating. There are two defeats to be wiped out, and, in order to do it, and do it decisively, some very hard work will be required...
...high time, therefore, that the students should assert themselves, if only for the protection of those who are working for them heart and soul. Let every man who has the slightest suspicion to work upon consider well his duty to the rest of the College. To speak plainly, the interests of the undergraduates demand that the offenders shall be hunted out and expelled at once...
...least on me particularly. Against this I protest emphatically. I will match my spirit of loyalty to Harvard against that of any Harvard man, the writer in the CRIMSON included. I deprecate the evil which exists in the papers now just as much as the CRIMSON, but I assert that I have not been the cause of that evil in any way. On the other hand, I could enumerate several articles written by me in which the spirit of loyalty has been in evidence enough to please the most enthusiastically loyal Harvard...
...deny that exceptional cases may arise, but we ask our opponents to answer this question: Where in the Cabinet system is there opportunity equal to that given by the Congressional system for the sober second thought of the people to assert itself...