Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dear sir, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and no steps have yet been taken to publish it." Publisher - "Don't be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait more than three thousand years before he got into print, and you can hardly claim that your poem is an Illiad." - [Fliegende Blatter...
...college papers. Indeed, it has been principally the outside press which, with perverted enterprise, has perpetually dragged the matter into publicity, both in and out of season. The public, of course, has a decided interest in learning the final outcome of the discussion, but they have no claim to learn more than this. The impertinent comments on the matter that have appeared from time to time in the daily press have derived a manifest absurdity from their impertinence. It is a matter of congratulation that in the future opportunities for publicity of this sort are not likely to arise...
...difficulties, the blame of which can be fastened satisfactorily upon no one. As a rule, we think that every athletic contest, especially an inter-collegiate contest, should be governed by a set of definite written rules. In this way no college will be enabled by mere technicality to claim a superiority which is ridiculous and absurd...
...Harvard the game has been steadily growing in favor, and the university team has well vindicated its claim to popular regard by its uniform success throughout its entire career. The organization of a freshman team assures the university organization a constant supply of trained material and gives it good assurance of permanent strength...
General Hazen's friends claim that he proposes to ask for a military court of inquiry into the charges made against him by Congressman Beltzhoover...