Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual concert of the Pierian Sodality to be given in Lyceum Hall on the evening of the 16th has a special claim on our patronage; for while all our other organizations are more or less independent of college support, the Pierian has only this resource. Nor is there any better way to raise the low appreciation of music at Harvard than to encourage by our presence the few who have a taste for music and seek to create it in others. Moreover, the concert this year promises some unusually good features. Besides the dance after the concert, Mr. Van Raalte...
...went to Boston to attend a party, and concluded to walk home. On the way they encountered an amiable policeman, who, after a brief discussion with them on the subject of making less noise, waded in, and with club, revolver, and fist, put the whole party to rout. They claim that they were only singing a little ditty, but he swears that they were drunk. - From a St. Louis Paper...
Clear blue eyes, shimmering golden hair, a perfect Marguerite. How trustful and confiding she was! We used to talk poetry by the hour, and once, as I ventured like a true knight to claim the winsome lady's glove, she blushed, - a blush like the soft pink on the petals of an apple-blossom, - and shook her head; but as she passed me that night in the corridor, she dropped this little glove into my hand, and - well - she went away the next day, and -" He told me once, by the way, that she married a wealthy pork-packer...
...certainly many others who are not influenced by considerations of this sort. I am fully sensible of the valuable privileges which the Faculty have granted us, and I have very rarely felt a want of sympathy with them. But I cannot regard the College Fund as having as much claim upon the student as many other subscriptions have, such as that to the University Crew, because, 1st, we have already paid a fair price, if not more, for all that we have received here, as far as it can have a money value put upon it; and 2d, a subscription...