Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...individual students regarded them. There appears, however, to be a very general idea among the upper-classmen that the examination papers were constructed on a broader basis this year than heretofore. The instructors made the scope of their questions wider and thus gave the students a chance to assert their knowledge or to disclose their ignorace in a more manly and scholarly way. The nature of the papers must of necessity vary greatly with the subject matter and some studies would not allow of this broader treatment. But in branches like history, political economy and the classics, the inexact sciences...
...principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice, which conditions, if I rightly understand them, may compactly be entitled those of intentionality, information, and persistence. Many assert also that boys come to college with no clear intentions, not knowing what they want, waiting to be told. It is true. The majority of the freshmen whom I have known in the last seventeen years have been, at entrance, quite deficient in serious aims. But from this fact...
...former years. The figures which we published some days ago about the increased circulation of the month of November are in themselves the best indicators of this change. It would be uncharitable and unreasonable to suppose that the books are taken out and returned unread. We may therefore assert that nearly 2000 more volumes were read in the month of November of this year than in any other month since the university's existence. No true observer can fail to see the obvious advantages arising from this increase in the reading of the students...
...following extract from a letter of a distinguished American scholar, concerning his son's career at Yale may interest some of our readers: "My son is doing nobly at college. The hereditary instinct is beginning to assert itself at last. He has joined the Young Men's Christian Association; has been foremost in every class rush and ruction; claims to have disabled permanently two sophomores, - and is himself a mass of bruises from head to foot. His popularity has so grown that all the freshman secret societies are after him, and he has, as I understand, already joined several. From...
...half mile run, respectively, have graduated from college, and ponderous A. B. Coxe, of the junior class is the only probable "first" man left to hold up Yale's end. That Mr. Coxe will do this in the hammer-throwing is pretty generally acknowledged, and there are many who assert that he will throw the hammer several feet beyond the best on record. He is doing some pretty fair work in his practice at putting the 16-pound shot, and it would not be surprising if his competitors in this event at the games were to be treated...