Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Finance Club has been fortunate in securing Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge to lecture before the college on the question of Protection, next Monday evening. The prominence Mr. Lodge has attained in questions of finance and economics makes it unnecessary for us to assert his ability to treat the question he has chosen for the subject of his lecture. The question of Protection is one that is always interesting; but it is peculiarly so at present, when the merits of the doctrines of Free Trade and Protection are to come forward so strongly in the Tariff issue now before the country...
...although practicable in the early days of the Republic, is now bungling and unjust. Of the cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters have been adjudged according to the political views of the votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue in favor of the negative. He asserted that to carry the proposed change into effect it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which would be at once difficult and dangerous. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president or a member of the Supreme Court, and why should it not have the right...
...study of law should receive a degree which the nature of his work does not entitle him to. The courses in law may be a thousand times more difficult than those of a post-graduate, but they are not in the same direction. We might just as well assert that because a man had pursued a course of study in the Medical School-which is fully as difficult as the Law School-therefore he ought to receive the degree of L. L. B. We cannot help thinking that there is a fallacy in our correspondent's complaint...
...marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score of poverty, to make Harvard his home...
...great rush from the high-ways and byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here...