Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that a number of those who live without the prayer limits are hesitating to sign the petition. These men claim that it is not a matter with which they are concerned. Their view, however, seems due to a misapprehension in regard to the petition. This document is meant to be expression of undergraduate opinion in regard to the advisability, or unadvisability of compulsory attendance at prayers. It maters not where a man lives, he should have some opinion on this affair of general college interest. So signing the petition is as legitimate for him as for anyone else...
...true sense of the term, the only university in the west, so Harvard is certainly the university of the east, and by reason of its age and wealth, with the great advantages and opportunities thereby afforded, there is but little doubt that "Fair Harvard" can with justice claim the proud distinction of being the foremost university in America...
Then in study, while Harvard certainly has more than its share of men who merely slip along without doing more study than is absolutely necessary, yet it may confidently claim that within its halls there is as much hard work done and as good results obtained as at any other institution of learning in the world. Certainly there are men who spend most of their time in the gymnasium or on Holmes or Jarvis Field, or rowing on the river, but even these do some work in college, or at least those who don't probably wouldn...
...retracting a single statement we made. Care needs to be taken by our opponents, as to just what points we have maintained. We do not object to boxing. Indeed, if reports are true, a scientific knowledge of that art may be of benefit to our selves. We have simply claimed in regard to the principle of the petition that the boxing interest in college is not sufficiently general to justify the expense of a salary for an instructor. We wait for further arguments before we abandon this claim...
...have a student conference committee. It is something which undergraduates have urged again and again in the past, but which may be said to have grown from the emergencies of the present year. On several occasions during the past few weeks self-appointed committees of students have presented one claim and another before the faculty or one of its numerous committees...