Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very strongly marked considering especially the acknowledged predominance of Yale graduates in New York. The figures which Mr. White has compiled show that Harvard's influence in New York is by no means losing ground as the public is often given to believe. We do not for an instant pretend to assert that more New York men come to Harvard than to Yale; figures directly contradict this. The New York men who are studying for a profession or are taking a scientific course find it more convenient to go to Yale to Harvard. But what we do assert...
...Norah's Excuse" is a life-like reminiscence told in the Irish dialect. No blame certainly attaches to a man who is not a master of dialect and who does not pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered who lays himself open to just criticism. And assuredly the substitution of "i" for "e," and the occasional use of "me" for "my" do not constitute good Irish dialect, - the author of "Norah's Excuse" to the contrary, not withstanding. A study of the masters of the Irish dialect...
...good faith, and equally certain that his arrangements with Yale were made in the same spirit. For Yale, therefore, to designate his action as "refusing to carry out the terms of your agreement with us," is equivalent to saying that Captain Dean has broken his good faith. Yale cannot pretend that she does not know that all arrangements for games and other athletic matters must be submitted for approval to the Harvard Athletic Committee. Certainly that committee has been prominently before the public often enough of late in exactly such actions, and no games with Yale nor with any other...
...arguments for these two plans; and is very soon to decide which method they shall adopt for next year. In their vote on the question we trust they will be influenced somewhat by the opinion of the students on a matter which so nearly concerns the latter. We cannot pretend that our view on the subject is the accurate expression of the whole college; because the students have not yet had a chance to discuss the matter thoroughly. But from as thorough a canvass as we have been able to make and from our own views, we should say rather...
...return the West has sent to Harvard a large delegation which has helped to make instruction take a broader course. The department of the University which receives the greater part of this delegation is not the college but the graduate and professional schools. harvard cannot pretend to compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue...