Word: claime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whenever anyone acquainted with the University asks what is the Harvard literary magazine, the Harvard undergraduate generally hesitates, thinks the question over, and then answers that there is no distinctly Harvard literary magazine. Under the present division of the field there are two papers that have more or less claim to literary fame, most of which is tradition, however; and they are struggling alone under a financial burden that saps their energy and threatens their destruction. If numerical circulation may be taken as a criterion of a paper's success, these undergraduate papers come very nearly being failures...
...life is sordid and miserable until he finds some great idea which can truly claim his all. Just as a river passes by and serves towns and forests, but does not turn aside from its course toward the great calm of the sea, so the soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...
...over modest, for, if the training is as useful as he says it is, it is safe to predict that the School will do more for the solution of economic and social problems than all the "social workers" and talking reformers combined, though, doubtless, the talkers would claim the credit for each step in progress...
...that we should have had our tears and have known our laughter. We must give the benefit of our tears and laughter, our hard-won patience, our wisdon and insight, to any brother who walks the same hard path beside us, to any neighbor whose simple need constitutes a claim upon...
...compare these figures with similar ones for the large western universities, we find that the student clientele of the latter, with the exception of the University of Michigan, is much more local in character. The following figures represent the percentage of the student body in six large universities which claim the state in which the institution is located as their permanent home: Minnesota, 94 per cent.; California, 88 per cent.; Stanford, 78 per cent.; Illinois, 77 per cent.; Wisconsin, 75 per cent.; and Michigan, 53 per cent...