Word: avow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats in the proportion of forty-two to thirteen. This too, without counting eleven who shrink from the name of free traders, but avow themselves revenue reformers...
...like to know what men entered belong to the college. How can they know this, when the college and university are so large and the means of acquaintance so small, if all the Harvard men entered are put down as coming from some distant clubs. Let those taking part avow themselves openly as members of the H. A. A. and the students in general will take a greater interest in their doings and they, themselves, will receive a much heartier support at any games where they wish to compete. Then the proper spirit of pride in the college will...
...There could be no better field from which to gain this evidence than England, for her universities and her schools have for centuries been almost exclusively under the classical system. Canon Farrar gives his views on the present value of the system in the following words : "I must, then. avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system...