Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...studies; that they select "soft" courses; that they select in accordance with their preferences, rather than guided by their intellectual needs. These objections, presented against the enlargement of the elective method, are the old objections, urged for years against the method itself. On the other side, I venture to affirm that the arguments in favor of the system are as strong in its behalf when allowed to the lowest class in college, as the higher classes. The system is a preventive of, and a cure for, poor scholarship. It introduces the student to those studies in which he may attain...
...superior class of students." However one is somewhat reassured in his feelings of advancement, when the article states, "but that education, either as a philosophy or a practical accomplishment was other than painfully narrow, mechanical, and unnatural in its ordinary condition, he must be a bold man who would affirm." the author then goes on to say, that "there have been within the last fifty years two remarkable movements in popular education which have also largely modified the academical schools. In 1830, New England was the undisputed leader in American education. The system of training was fixed by the leading...
...verified by comparison with the check list. Then the votes for each candidate is counted and the returns sent to the board of government commissioners in each district, who inspect them and officially announce the result. It only remains for the successful candidate to appear before the commissioners and affirm that he will discharge the duties of his position conscientiously, or if he is not in the country he must forward a written deposition to the same effect. But the candidate is not yet assured of his seat until the German Parliament, which reserves the right to recall rejected candidates...
From this brief sketch of the main features of Paris university life, so repugnant to our ideas and notions of such a life, I am sure all will agree with me when I affirm that for mental and physical comfort there is no place like Fair Harvard. Yours...
...confined within too delicate a frame to make itself felt in after life; more often they have to put a plodding and industrious crammable man on the same level with a man of genius who will distance him by an incalculable amount hereafter." Indeed malcontents are wont to affirm that this is done not only sometimes, but every time. But the judgment of the Cornhill writer will be accepted by most people as substantially correct...