Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish with pleasure the reply of the Spirit of the Times to our editorial of April 17th. We do so with greater pleasure, because that paper has put itself still further in the wrong by its cheap bombast and ridiculous patronage. In the first place we did not claim to be criticising the editorial columns of the Spirit, as reference to our columns of April 17th will show. In the second place, the article which we did criticise was not under the head of correspondence, nor did it have the name of a correspondent attached to it. There was simply...
...audience, proved at least one thing, that they feel deeply the wrongs of their countrymen and would spare no efforts to abrogate those wrongs. From an educational point of view this meeting was of great interest. Many opponents of the plan which calls for the education of the Indian claim that he cannot be educated, that he is unfitted for our civilization. Whether this be so or not the audience of last evening had a most positive argument to the contrary in the two Indian students who addressed them...
...venial one, not to be judged and condemned by the same rule of honor and justice, as the offences of falsehood and cheating are and must ever be regarded in all the conduct and dealings of private life and of business among men - especially among "gentlemen" as we all claim, and ought, to be. All must agree with the correspondent, J. M. M. (in CRIMSON of 9th) that the zeal with which the discussion has been taken up indicates "an earnest desire on the part of many students to rid college life of all underhanded methods and thereby render impossible...
...Annual Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration...
...recent editorial in the News claims that, in spite of criticism. "Yale, as a college is unsurpassed." To support this somewhat bold assertion, it makes the statement that "It is on its traditions that a college can claim its pre-eminence;" that "the closeness of our college requirements forbids any stagnation, it makes necessary a wideness of acquaintance and interest; it has produced what has come to be worded 'Yale enthusiasm...