Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vassar and Wellesley both lay claim to the young lady who amended Shakespeare thus: "Be not a negro of your speech...
...must confess we believe Mr. Arnold's criticism just. As a proof that the criticism was unjust, he says that "the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced." This is, of course, no disproof of Mr. Arnold's claim, which was based on facts. As to the question of our like or dislike as Americans to see Mr. Emerson's intellectual proportions measured with "a British foot-rule," it cannot possibly enter into any discussion based on Emerson's merit or place. But it might be said that...
...Harvard asking whether they should come. No answer was returned until the following Monday. Inasmuch as Harvard made no reply until after the time for the game had passed, and inasmuch as Colubia's team was ready to play the Directors think themselves justified in refusing to acknowledge any claim set forward by Harvard...
...evening of the day that the game was played, and not wait nearly a week before sending the challenge? It is contrary to precedent as well. Only last year there was a tie, but no one heard of an actual proposal for another game. We can see no possible claim that the Yale freshmen have now for urging the acceptance of their challenge, and we believe that '87 does entirely right in declining to play again...
...singular fact that the important subject of hygiene has never, until now, been included in the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School, which may rightfully lay claim to being considered the first institution of the kind in the country. The omission is the more remarkable in view of the fact that in some of the Western States, where medical practitioners are obliged to secure a license from the State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly...