Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book reserved in Gore Hall, and his name and offense were conspicuously posted for days; but when the Louisburg cross came back the thief was tenderly shielded from public notice. It is understood that the painters of Fogg Museum were detected and expelled, but no one can vouch...
...character of the Brown team. Though their adoption of the title Brown met no outburst of righteous indignation at that college, they were and are no more nor less than a scrub team of the same nature as the team they played. Mr. Hale, their manager, will vouch for this statement...
...Harvard University 2,500; Northwestern University 2,000; Yale University, 1969; Cornell University, 1,576; University of Wisconsin, 1,300; University of the City of New York, 1,200; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1,100; Princeton University, 1,061; DePaw University, 1,051. - Yale News. We can not vouch for all these statistics relating to the largest ten universities, but Harvard's catalogue gives an enrollment of 2,966, besides the 500 who attend the Summer School...
James Russell Lowell then delivered an address, saying that Harvard was founded to perpetuate sound learning, chiefly through the three languages, Hebrew, Greek and Latin. This tradition long held so strong a sway that the language was considered to vouch for good literature, and men forgot that it is the thought, not the language that makes a writer immortal. Now men have come to realize the value of knowing other languages, not only on account of its use in teaching us the true meaning of our own words, but the training in style we gain from reading more writers...