Word: proven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June...
...pluck, but they showed great need, particularly at first, of some one able to give directions. It has been often said that, in case of a fire at night in one of the buildings, no one would be safe. This was before a theory; it is now unfortunately a proven fact. That we utterly lack any means of preserving our lives or property, in case of a fire under less favorable circumstances than that of Wednesday, has been pretty clearly shown. In such a building as Weld a fire on the ground floor would be drawn up to the roof...
...graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call a man a thief, and he'll steal." The student knows that his assertion, instead of being considered true till proven false, is regarded false until proven true. This seems manifestly an unfair, not to say discourteous, method of treating him. Why should one man's testimony in this case counterbalance that of two or three others. The assumption that a student will lie is paying him a poor compliment...