Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the manner in which the News talks to Yale '87 : "We must be allowed the privilege of informing the freshman class that the university foot-ball authorities will not allow them to play any game with Harvard unless they put in the field a team with some claim to a decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt...
...life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim, and so that men follow them as intelligent men and not as the inferior drudges of society, they have been coming up into the broad light of the university and assuming the character and interest which rightly belong to them...
...such a society has any claim for existence it has a strong one ; and if the old society cannot gain enough energy to successfully prosecute its work, let a new one be formed that can. No society could have a better purpose and aim than such a one, but it must use every guard lest it strengthen rather than destroy the evil of drinking here by bringing ridicule upon itself...
...should like to suggest that, in addition to securing occasional speakers to address the society, the society itself should do active work. It should hold at least bi-weekly meetings for the discussion of temperance questions which must be argued before the people long and well are we can claim a victory. At these meetings papers should be read and discussed, and in a great variety of ways could the time be profitably employed for those of us who in after life expect to war against the curse of strong drink. I am aware that a temperance organization in this...
...Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit in which they are offered will indeed be greatly benefited thereby, but, unfortunately, there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work as not to appreciate such disinterested generosity is a poor, senseless being who deserves the contempt of all good people...