Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...abiding. When a body of men loses its respect for law, it endangers the stability of society. Disregard for law, however, is but one of the many manifestations of the underlying spirit of trade unionism--a spirit which seeks to create caste, to create clique interests, to assert the superior importance of trade unions, and to set their interests above the interests of all other parties...
Hornblower, answering Catchings in rebuttal, said that the affirmative did not assert that the States could not protect themselves. If the power of the States is found now to be adequate, the proposed power to be given the President is not necessary. But many instances have been cited to prove that it is not adequate. Domestic violence is not a matter of State concern. Our economic conditions make it inevitable that trouble in one State affects the nation...
...moon last night making observations and photographs of the various phenomens. The photographic work was directed toward the discovery of any satellites to the mirror which may possibly exist. It will probably be some days before the observers will be able to compute the measurements taken last night and assert their full significance...
...Stebbins says in his preface, "One would not claim for the poems here presented the depth of a Browning nor the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard...
...adoption of uniform examinations at Harvard and indeed, elsewhere. Each college has its own intellectual ideals, and it is best for every college for its own sake and for the sake of the general cause of education to maintain those ideals separate and distinct. While I shall not assert that the Harvard requirements are better than those of all other colleges. I do believe them to be best for the particular kind of training the University aims to give, and I believe they should be uncompromised. Furthermore, examinations based on those of the average college would be utterly different...