Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...view of this fact and the actual financial experience of the CRIMSON we are in a position to assert that at present it is absolutely impracticable for two daily papers to be carried on at Harvard together...
...best, any system of graded marking is likely to prove not wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
...exhibit pronounced the work of the club, judged by the highest standards, to be of a very advanced order. It was hardly to be expected that the present exhibit would deserve greater praise, yet such has been the case. The judges yesterday afternoon did not hesitate to assert a marked improvement in the work of this year over that of last...
...effect which such a contest would have upon the Yale game, the experience of a hard game should certainly strengthen the eleven by a disclosure of its weak points. This fact was evidenced by the Yale-Pennsylvania game last year. Perhaps, however, as the managers of the team assert, three important games in one year would be too many...
...good many articles have recently appeared in various papers about the college man in business, and extremists have gone so far as to assert that college unfits a man for a business career. This in general we cannot agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...