Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...indeed a near-sighted policy, to blindly insist upon the payment of the Stadium debt to the exclusion of improvements and extensions so obviously necessary. We realize that the hands of the present Athletic Committee are tied, but we hope when the new Committee assumes control, it will assert its better judgment, and ask the Governing Board to reconsider their recommendation...
...most important features of social work has been the establishment of classes and boys' clubs, as well as manual-training and cooking classes. These classes teach the children reliance and give them a chance to assert their own individuality, and to express their own ideas, the lack of which is a strong factor in their moral degradation. If the children can be educated by means of beautiful schools and open parks, half the battle will...
...That in the opinion of this Board, many of the unsatisfactory conditions attending intercollegiate football has been exaggerated by an unwillingness on the part of the officials charged with the enforcement of the rules on the field to assert their authority, and therefore this Board requests the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports to formulate if possible some more satisfactory plan for the selection of such officials than the one now in vogue...
Joseph de Maistre condemned the Revolution and proclaimed that the only way to save society and restore Christianity was to assert the principles of authority and obedience. These principles he exalted in the church as well as in the state, and his Ultramontanism, or leaning towards the Roman See, was directed against the sovereignty of the people...
Rebutting the points of Burton, the first affirmative speaker, Rabenold said that the discussion must concern not special but general tendencies. The affirmative has shown simply that the working man has tried to assert himself; this self-assertion is a defense against encroaching capitalism, and is in the best interests of the whole community...