Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fear that President Eliot has based his remarks about the religion of India, at any rate, upon the garbled reports of a few superficial observers. We know the good as well as the bad points in our country's intellectual development and can assert with confidence that most of the problems which Christianity likes to regard as her exclusive privileges have been long mooted and debated in India...
...college pride, if nothing else, as to have only a sneer and a hiss for such an alumnus? Harvard's hiss cannot hurt Mr. Roosevelt, but it can and will hurt Harvard in the judgment and the regard of the American people. I am appealing to the College to assert its better self against those whose conduct is bringing reproach upon it. J. L. MOORE...
...cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory of pantheistic monism. Christianity is opposed to the notion that the whole course of things appears in inevitable sequence. While it does not assert man's entire independence, it does make him responsible for his actions and gives him the power to deny god if he will...
Perhaps in the "good old days" there were courses that required no work at all, but certainly such a time has passed. It is safe to assert that at present there are practically no courses that are intrinsically "cinches...
There are men of power and insight who condemn the University teams for their effect upon both these elements; for, they say, the strenuous physical work of athletes exhausts their vitality to a point where serious application to academic pursuits is impossible. They assert, moreover, that interest in the games draws the attention of every undergraduate away from his studies...