Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Those Seniors who do not call for their tickets before Wednesday, June 21, will forfeit their claim to them...
...seconds to spare. Swiddle is a handsome man, who dresses to perfection, ordering his clothes from Smiler & Compa, Bond St., W., and he never by any chance loses his temper. He is the most thoroughly gentlemanly person that I ever knew, although his best friends will hardly venture to claim that he is a gentleman; and when I first knew him I found him very agreeable. But he has since developed a propensity for quietly laying hands upon the best tarts in every dish. He will lounge up to the table, join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other...
...late by receiving intimations from H. M. collectors of customs, or some such officials, that a license must be taken out before they are entitled to wear a Cardinal's Hat, or an Eagle, or any other heraldic device on their boating jackets. It seems strange that such a claim, if a just one, has not been made before, or at least that Undergraduates have not been apprised by their college authorities of the risk they run in wearing the Boat Club uniform...
...time which they need for electives in other departments in which they intend to take honors. Those who take a classical course should remember that the Greeks accomplished works in art, as well as in oratory and tragedy, which have never been surpassed; and that no one can claim a knowledge of the Greeks until he has made an acquaintance with them as artists, whatever may be his knowledge of them as orators, poets, and historians...
...instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from new, they are very neat, and he evidently bestows quite as much water on the outside of his body (and probably more on the inside) than our friend Augustus...