Word: claime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dance again reaches our ears; and the fact that he who is not a member of the Union will be forced to become one at the cost of ten dollars before he can attend the Dance has lost none of its attractiveness as a subject for criticism. The dissatisfied claim that the Dance should be held somewhere else, the membership fee temporarily lowered, or the requirement of membership suspended...
...than the whole of any class wearing them--a development which can in no way be insured against--is to be avoided. Class buttons do not create class unity. They can only express that unity if it is already in existence. As a means of identification they lose their claim to existence with each class passing through a year of cohabitation in the first year of its college career. It is not class selfishness on the part of the Seniors but wise reluctance to refrain from ill-calculated demonstrations of reform that leads to this action...
...There is football in the fall, and the spring has three major activities, but the winter has none. Hockey is the logical winter sport and deserves recognition as a major sport. The new rink would bring a number of important teams to this city, and hockey will base its claim for recognition on the consummation of the plan for the artificial ice-rink...
...most important feature of the Register, indeed, its sole claim to publication apart from the University Catalogue, is its list of clubs and organizations of all sorts which flourish in the University. The lists of members are due today. Without a complete quota the Register will not be a register at all; it will be a failure. And the organization not entered on its pages is not far in character from "unlisted" stock--either tract of substantial value or culpable motives may be responsible for, its absence...
Moreover, it may be worth considering that a club that can claim the activity of its members for only a single year can scarcely hope to be of any permanent value or to achieve anything of moment during each year of its existence. Each year will mean practically complete reorganization and a life wholly dependent upon the varying ability of the men who may happen that year to compose...