Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania has placed itself in a very peculiar position. It attempts to assert that hereafter, if they do not receive an answer within sixty days to their challenge to row an eight-oared race, they will be champions of all the American colleges. In other words, they intent to ignore the claims of the old and tried oarsmen of Harvard and Yale, merely because these latter parties have too many previous engagements to accept the challenge of this last aspirant for aquatic honors. College boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make...
...today, unless coupled with skill and intelligence. This may at first seem a truism, but those to whom it appears as such, indicate their ignorance of what the last two qualities may be made to signify in foot-ball. And this brings us to our point. We venture to assert that to the average foot-ball player, the scientific possibilities of the game are very vaguely revealed. We believe that we make a more thorough theoretical and practical study of the game than is made at other colleges. A systematic study of the game in all its varying circumstances...
...criticising it, and in which the practical result and outcome of the student is a mark and not the means by which to do better,-that any such course of study is a failure, a waste of precious time, and must be either improved or given up. Now we assert that what has been said is exactly the state of the present instruction in forensics; and whatever the faculty may think on the subject, we are confident that all thinking men in the senior class-who have had a year's experience in the matter-will agree with...
...light. Skilled players were then comparatively few, and moreover the scientific game of today was just being introduced. As a result of careful practice we have now many professional ball players of six or eight years experience, who are fitted to instruct those less experienced. Is it reasonable to assert that a man who has studied base-ball can give as valuable advice to young players as can a learned professor in college to classes in his particular department? We have good material at Harvard and it is simply a down-right shame that it cannot be worked...
...From the time I left Oxford I have made it a religion so far as I could, never to let a day pass without reading some Latin and Greek, and I can tell you that so far as my course may be deemed a successful one, I deliberately assert, maintain and believe that what little screens has been granted to me in life has been materially aided by the constant study of the classics, which it has been my delight and privilege all my life to persevere in." [Lord Coleridge's address at Yale...