Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interest here is insufficient, and that our men show too little desire by hard training to ensure their success. He closes by expressing the hope that next year a marked improvement may be shown in this respect; and that, by beginning early and working hard, Harvard may justly claim the victory...
...built for about $75,000, and the money for it would naturally come from some one more interested in the Law School than Mr. Hastings was. His gift is to the College; and as an expensive building must be put up, an Art Museum certainly has the strongest claim. Before the new building is begun, it is to be hoped that a definite plan (irrespective of existing buildings, if need be) for the buildings of the Yard may be agreed upon...
...most conscientious among the members of the Faculty have long deplored the various styles of clothing worn by students. Many professors claim that they are too much confused by the diversity of costumes to be able to do full justice to the lectures. And indeed their aesthetic eye is only too apt to be offended. Here is a man with a high collar; there, another with a low; then there are students with square cuffs, and round cuffs, and no cuffs at all. One persists in parting his hair on the side; another, in parting it in the middle. Indeed...
...view of the present dispute over Yale's claim to the base-ball championship, I take the liberty of proposing the following plan to the consideration of our base-ball men, not with the intention or expectancy of originating anything new, but with the hope of drawing out expressions of opinion from others, and in this way of accomplishing the desired...
...those men who, after subscribing, elude the collectors in every possible way, and subject them to continual trouble and annoyance. We hope this year to see a favorable change. We remind the University that among the many interests which make demands upon it, the older sports have the first claim upon its favors. We remind it that division of subscriptions should be made with reference to the fact that the Nine and Fifteen, when well managed, are self-supporting; whereas the Crew relies entirely upon outside support. We hope men will pay what they can afford promptly, and thus save...