Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...
...letter to which he took exception was by no means a criticism of our government's position; it said nothing at all about the merits of the question. "We assert," it says, "that it is a duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble...
...intense war-spirit now manifested in our treatment of foreign affairs seems to us a menace to the welfare of our country and to her high stand among the civilized nations. We assert that it is a duty entailed on us as citizens of the United States to do every thing in our power to oppose the war-spirit so rampant now. We therefore suggest that every member of the University, whether student or professor, write a personal letter to the senators of his state and the representative of his district, deprecating the warlike policy indicated in the President...
...matter has been carefully weighed, some definite conclusions must be reached. Every man having arrived at his determination ought to assert the right to trust the inductions of his reason. Let him be staunch and uncompromising in upholding the truth as he sees it and condemn the evil...
...similar amount or its equivalent between this time and the beginning of the year 1900. This additional money is to be exclusive of any that may be pledged at this time. The trustees say they have not the least fear of being unable to raise the full amount and assert that the entire $3,000,000 is already as good as theirs...