Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee ought to submit to the students their objections, stated specifically, and let them make an effort for change. The committee may claim that they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty...
...College of William and Mary divides with Harvard the claim of antiquity on this continent. Seventeen days before the days of John Harvard, in 1619, money was raised and land appropriated for a college, when a massacre by the Indians prevented its establishment...
...disturbances such as now and then break out at the services of half the colleges in this country, would quickly induce the Powers That Be to change their minds and abolish morning prayers. Again, the athletic committee, although they would be not a little surprised if we should claim to know as much about Greek and mathematics as they do, feel sure that they know quite as much about foot ball and kindred sports as we do, and that to consult the students in those matters as to questions of fact or expediency would be superfluous...
...waiter at an '88 club table at Memorial may safely claim to be champion of the waiters. A few days ago he was seen carrying, at one time, seventeen plates of roast beef...
...made the first touchdown. The ball was poorly punted out and Peabody was unable to secure it. Willard soon made another rust and the ball was carried over the line by Gilman who thus made the score 8 to 0. No goal was kicked as the referee allowed a claim that Peabody's hand was off side when Kimball kicked the ball. Gilman got the ball again after it was brought out and made touchdown number three, but no goal was scored. Instead the ball was soon in the possession of our rushers and being passed back to Kimball...