Word: assent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ossip's" reply that we do H. H. neither harm nor good we can, in general, assent. But he implies, by saying that the expression of our disapproval establishes our reputation as a meddlesome character, (1) that H. H.'s language is none of our business, and (2) that the expression of our disapproval effects no good at all. The truth of the first implication evidently depends on the truth of the second, namely, that nothing is improved by our expression of disapproval. This is the point to which we object; this is the point against which we propose...
...said often that Harvard no longer produces literary men. While we do not assent to this sweeping proposition, we do see, in the recent choice of subjects for the next Commencement exercises, an argument in favor of the assertion. Of the nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that...
...called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember...
...foot-ball throughout the College. It is well known that Harvard declined to join the Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism, yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best; nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption...
...chorus of assent...