Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Courant makes the rather astonishing claim that W. C. Camp, the well-known Yale foot-ball and base-ball player, "has certainly done as much as, and we feel that we might say more than, any man in this country to advance athletic sports...
...need of a great metropolitan university which should be to the city of New York what Harvard is to Boston, Yale to New Haven, and Johns Hopkins to Baltimore. Although there are many colleges in New York, more or less fully equipped, not one of these can lay claim to the title of a great university. Feeling this need, the friends of higher education are anxious, if possible, to lay the foundations of a future university, of which New York may well be proud...
...rule, examinations are not regarded by the outside world as occasions on which a display of humor may be expected. But if exceptions prove the rule, then may examinations claim to afford a very rich fund of ludicrous incidents. One of the frequent causes of humor at examinations is of course the ignorance of candidates. A person was once asked the question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account...
...that she has not met them. Yale was challenged last year, and this year Harvard has been. To the latter no reply has been received, and we venture to say that, if Yale had accepted the former, there would have been a close and exciting race. Harvard and Yale claim to hold the first positions in boating on the sole basis of declining to row any races except those between themselves. As long as they hold this position of exclusiveness, it cannot be definitely proved that they are not entitled to the pre-eminence they arrogate. - [University Magazine (Penn...
...senior class at Vassar are endeavoring to have the practice of bestowing "honors" at graduation discontinued. The claim is that competition in studies destroys wholesome effort. It is not expected, however, that the college authorities will see fit to grant the request...