Word: assertive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoroughly bad reputation among men of all ages, among men who have known it intimately or who have watched it closely as well as among less well-informed persons, it becomes the duty of those who are responsible for its existence to prove-and not merely to assert-publicly that the reputation is undeserved. If they cannot do that, it is their duty to see that the causes for disapproval are at once removed. In the present case they must further show that the existence of such a Freshman club is not directly opposed to President Lowell's efforts...
...might finish in three years by a proper arrangement of their courses prefer instead to take four years, and that the chance of taking part in athletics for an extra year is the principal inducement to such men, is not so easy of proof. We venture to assert, however, that the cases in which, for the sake of athletics, men take an unnecessary year to get their degrees are more numerous than the case in which men are lost to the teams by leaving College ahead of the majority of their class...