Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this question Carlos Fuller, young graduate of Union Theological Seminary, replied that while he did not deny the well-known dogma, he could not assert his belief...
...would undertake for a moment to belittle the value of graduate schools, or to assert that new buildings are to the life of a college as nothing; but there is a very real danger here that the perspective on the true function of a university will be curiously distorted. If the present trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the university of the future will be little more than a collection of highly specialized technical schools, with somewhere in an out of the way corner the attenuated ghost of what was once a college of the liberal arts...
Yesterday the Crimson Waiters' eight took to the water for the first time. The boat neither sank nor over turned although some of the oarsmen did not rise to expectations. A spectator was heard to assert that "Jim" Combs was a better football end than an oarsman. However, the University should be well represented, for of the 18 eligible men, including, managers and retainers. Richard Trimble Jr. '26 who captained last year's Crimson eight, should be a winning factor...
...Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this error by its natural, if unsuccessful effort to protect its copyright against a Philadelphia Tarter who adopted its name. Some envious victims of the myth have gone so far as to assert that the Cabot are not a genes, but a distinct species of the human race. This unscientific passion is regrettable...
...doubt but that the "little red school-house" has been sadly over-rated, and that we have, as a nation, been taught facts rather than the more vital Life. Untold opportunities, have been thrown away in wasted logical energy although some few might be skeptical enough to assert that any sort of logic has long ceased to manifest itself in our schools. But skepticism will vanish before the alluring and signicant program laid out, and our children will grow to maturity with the blessing of knowing how to live life as it should be lived...