Word: claimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...learn from an exchange that a Baltimore City scholarship, five university scholarships, and ten fellowships, yielding $500 each, have been established at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore. These fellowships are needed in every institution which lays a claim to be called a "University," but they fail to make the university. If we could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money...
...claim, in conclusion, that all such articles as will admit of a detrimental construction - however far-fetched - should be most carefully scanned by the editors before being printed...
...disprove this final result of the charge would require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim to a clearer understanding of the motives which govern the actions of the "powers that...
...Medford. In all these our team achieved signal success; and as they have met with but one defeat since foot-ball came into prominence at Harvard, it may be fairly said, after comparison with the records of other interests, that the foot-ball interest has a much stronger claim upon our pockets. The expenses incurred in the trip to Montreal were very heavy, and the cost of the New Haven trip was by no means small. An additional outlay made for uniforms, and a number of incidental expenses, caused the amount of the indebtedness of the team to assume quite...
Societies as organizations should have no more to do with class elections than free-masons with the election of public officers for the national government. What non-society men claim is the right of their position, not the privileges of societies...