Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...claim in regard to the first freshman game is valid. Strange as it may seem, we do not recollect that "Yale has yielded more than once to equally foolish and unfair demands from her rival." We venture a smile at the Courant's sarcasm in urging Yale "to assert a little independence in these matters...
Physicians assert that the curvature of the spine should necessarily be bent back...
...generally a fair team, at least; and it seems a pity that it should be thought necessary to exclude Dartmouth from the league. The Harvard baseball team of 1882, complained of ill treatment the last time they played at Hanover; on the other hand, gentlemen who witnessed the game assert that a member of the Harvard team addressed very ungentlemanly words to the umpire, a Hanoverman. Thus the question, like nearly all others, has two sides. I understand that the reason given by the Harvard delegates for advocating last year the expulsion of Dartmouth from the league, was the difficulty...
Here then is an opportunity for the Annex. We know of no stronger argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future...
...understand that both these statements are denied by members of the committee, who assert that the committee was actuated by sincere motives as expressed in Prof. Norton's letter in prohibiting the Yale game, and that no official assurance has been given the nine of permission to employ a professional trainer in the contingency named, although individual members of the committee may be in favor of such action in that case...