Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia sophomores have not created any disturbance this year, as has been the custom in former years, and there is some talk among them of abolishing the annual cane rush. The sophomores claim that they can afford to abolish the custom, as they succeeded in vanquishing '89 in the several rushes last year...
...some more distant place. He was a self-announced candidate for President of the United States in every campaign, and would argue about his chances with unbounded confidence. When told one day in 1876 that an article had been inserted in a newspaper setting forth the strength of his claim for the nomination as against Grant, he became very angry, saying that if the Grant crowd were stirred up against him he would 'have no show.' His 'orations' and poems (generally written for him by some student) were marvels of polysyllabic nonsense...
Harvard men have until lately supposed that having won the cup for seven consecutive years, they had established a claim to its ultimate possession. Of late there has been a rumor that the cup would not, after all the spaces were filled, revert to Harvard, but would remain a perpetual challenge cup. The facts of the case, as far as they can be ascertained, are the following: There are fourteen shields on the outside of the cup, and each year a shield is engraved with the name of the college that wins the cup, and the names of the first...
...only comment that the CRIMSON can make is that the Yale News is very modest not to claim first place in the hurdles for Yale. With Suddington and Berger as her representatives it would seem as if there could be no doubt about the winner. Although Mr. Stevens of Columbia won first place in New York last year with a vault of 10 feet 3-4 inches, he did not do well in the games this winter. Yale and Harvard have both men who have broken the record made by Mr. Stevens and it would seem that he would have...
...members of the Yale nine claim that they would have beaten the Washingtons had not the latter "rattled" them by yelling...