Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle reason for Dr. McDougall's refusal to endorse the genuineness of the phenomena produced by "Margery" is the unsatisfactory nature of the condition imposed by the medium on her investigators. That she has failed to give evidences of supernormal phenomena, Dr. McDougall does not assert. His attitude on this point is defined as follows: "She has produced a very considerable quantity of such phenomena. The defect is in respect of the quality rather than of the quantity of the evidence. What I do assert is that the evidence of the opposite tendency far outweights the evidence of supernormality...
...confidently assert that there is no better way to get to know Harvard than through the CRIMSON. A candidate comes into contact with the heads of every activity and with prominent business men in Boston, and so the CRIMSON becomes a gateway to an infinite fund of information...
...every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures and got the answer he wanted, but, like Goldberg's famous Bughouse Fables, they don't mean anything...
Four men with keen senses assert that "Margery", the well known Boston medium, exudes a tangible, physical substance from her mouth. The world sits back with astonishment and, for all the explanation that has been given, may remain perplexed until doomsday. Doctor Dingwall, in Jordan Hall Saturday evening, stated the fact, but gave no explanation. That he and his colleagues are mistaken as to the actual existence of this substance is hardly probable, for it has been seen repeatedly in seances covering weeks. Granting, then, that it exists, what is its cause...
...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...