Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the 'varsity nine practiced on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon, devoting their time to batting and fielding work. Probably no other team in the league can claim such an early opening of the season as that marked by yesterday's exploit...
...degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should be represented only by the extremely talented or the hopelessly mediocre. While we feel that the clever men have, of late, been prone to claim rather more than their share of public attention, yet we are rather inclined to the belief that there is a place in modern literature which can be best filled by their writings. The fact that cleverness may fail to secure anything like a lasting reputation for its possessor...
...exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication of energies is responsible. He cannot claim consideration as a pessimist, for a pessimist (according to the latest receipt) must be sadly cheerful, while he makes a very ordinary and unpoetic kind of a person out of himself by his querulous ways. Now for the coroner. He is sometimes a freshman, sometimes a grind, and always...
...after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many are anxious for late as for early prayers, that the story of Yale's voting "with one voice" for early chapel is only a hoax. And so the proud claim of Yale that her students were superior to those at Harvard, a claim which at the bottom meant nothing more than that Yale was desperately determined to win some athletic victories, falls to the ground...
...exclusively the "true." Care was taken to recall the old position of Harvard in the question of classics, and to draw the conclusion so natural to a man of Yale that, because Harvard no longer occupies her old position she is per se in a wrong position. The claim was again advanced that Yale is the national college, and as such stands foremost among all the colleges in this land. Dr. Porter spoke at some length on the religious influence of Yale, and declared that everywhere the public demand is "that our young men shall have the side of faith...