Word: claime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feature of this work which is worthy of mention is the fact that there have been no serious accidents of any kind on rifle ranges since the work was introduced, a claim that could hardly hold good in connection with other prominent school sports such as football and baseball...
Although the intercollegiate baseball championship is a mythical title, which cannot be definitely awarded to any one team, a victory over Pennsylvania today, and a victory in the series with Yale, will put the University team in the very front rank, and if a mythical title can be claimed, will give the University a strong claim on it. The game today gives the University a chance to avenge its defeat in Philadelphia; also it is the last contest before the first Yale game. For these reasons it is an important contest and merits the keenest interest and strongest support...
...only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
...privilege. In no theatre can one reserve seats right up to the time of the performance, and it seems to me that the same principle should apply here. As the scheme has worked out, men reserve courts and, later finding themselves unable to use them, simply fail to claim them. The vacancies remain filled according to the charts, however, and later applicants are thus prevented from reserving courts. I have also heard that there are men who abuse the privilege to the extent of signing up for courts at different hours under different names, and then using which ever court...
...specified court for not more than three consecutive half-hour periods. The first period will begin daily at 1.45 o'clock. The applicant must pay for the court upon receipt of the slip. Courts will be forfeited without refund if the holder of the slips does not claim his court within 10 minutes after the beginning of the period. In case of rain, tickets may be redeemed if presented at the place where bought, sometime during the following...