Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poets cannot always, declare with Carlyle that there is nothing else but justice in the universe, they can at least assert the ultimate triumph of justice. They believer that whether you or I win or lose, the "forts of folly" will one day fall. If beaten in the lower court of the understanding, they made their proud appeal to Caesar, to the imperial rights of the imagination...
...requires more than one evening a week. While many men feel that their time is too full to crowd into it another activity, the manner in which they meet this appeal from the less fortunate is a fair indication of their future usefulness. Men who have done this work assert to the fact that the value of the experience repays their time many fold...
...such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
...natural enough. The building was put up not long ago to meet a very real need among the student body of a common gathering place, of a headquarters for all phases of student activities. That such a need has ceased to exist we should hardly care to assert. Nevertheless with the development of student life and equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener...
...however, he should look into the matter thoroughly he could probably assign the cause of his missed opportunities to a poor understanding of his elementary courses. May we blame the instructors for this phenomenon? Considering the American system of education in its entirety it would be impossible to assert that preparatory courses are as generally inefficient as the information of the men would seem to indicate. And yet it is not right to place all the blame on the student. Perhaps the inducement to the intelligent appreciation of a course are not what they should...