Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president and trustees of Bates College are working hard for $100,000 which they claim to be due them from the Bates' estate. The case is now being tried...
...poet, we think, must, like the semi-heroine of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," never have been born at all, but merely "growed." Where he is going to, can, perhaps, be easier told. He will write one more effusion, and, then - well, if he lived in Massachusetts, Danvers would then claim...
Homer's catalogue of ships can only be rivalled in prolixity by a catalogue of the innumerable colleges and "universities" of the West. Ohio, perhaps, can claim to be the greatest mother of colleges in the Union; at least her brood is more numerous than any other. Kenyon, Oberlin, University of Wooster, Baldwin University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio University (located amid the classic shades of "Athens"), Heidelberg College, Denison University, Wittenberg College, Antioch College - the list is truly apalling. The predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy...
...meat and forego pie by promising him a new rocking-horse. He may eat pie if he chooses and follow it up with a course of equally indigestable pastries, but in that case he will get no rocking-horse. The Harvard youth may, by forfeiting his claim on the Harvard bauble, which happens to be honors, utterly ruin his intellectual digestion, and yet receive his degree...
...many of the college men were in favor of sending a committee to confer with Harvard. At the meeting Monday the presiding officer asked if there were any present who entertained any such views, in order that they might be heard. The college generally resent such an imputation, and claim general unanimity in sentiment endorsing the letter of the advisory committee...