Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to reports received from New Haven, Yale is planning to send to England its track team, and possibly its crew, regardless of whether the University accompanies them or not. Yale track officials assert that not only has the challenge been sent across the ocean by Professor Mendel, chairman of the Yale Athletic Board of Control, but that the Yale board has already voted to allow the team to go to England...
...authors of the communication, mature graduates, seriously contend that a speaker is "insidiously subtle" who opens his address with the frank statement that he is a Bolshevist? Have the authors of the communication, when they assert that the United States is "internally and externally at war" with Russia, forgotten that power to declare war is vested only in Congress...
...were a succession of 28 assaults and outrages by negroes upon white women to occur in any city in the country, eastern cities included, there would be some sort of summary justice dealt the criminals, and whether this justice were administered by legal action or by mob violence I assert it would be summary and immediate. Court action, after two moths, trial, in the case, failed. Mob violence, passionate, exaggerated, emotional, primitive justic, dealt with the case. Sol. A ROSRNRLATT...
...evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm a good many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember friendships that originated and received a glowing impulse over a bottle of wine; they know that for the removal of narrowness and prejudice they owe a debt to alcohol. Men have quarreled at Harvard in their cups, and men have been maudlin over one another in their cups...
...abiding citizens want an efficient police force. All thoughtful people realize that a police force cannot be efficient if underpaid and overworked. If this were the issue at hand, the public would agree absolutely with the demands of the policemen, who assert with reason that they are underpaid and overworked. But these policemen were not alone satisfied in bettering their condition. They have opposed local police force rules by affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. In so doing the strikers did not realize the great responsibility of their position nor did they regard the laws of their department governing...