Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of earnest consideration by the administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty, and I think the standing and recognized judgment of his counsellors is such...
Pennsylvania claims the intercollegiate football championship this year. Her claim rests on the following comparison: Yale played a tie game with Brown, Cornell defeated Brown, Harvard beat both Brown and Cornell, and Pennsylvania defeated Harvard, Brown and Cornell, the last named by the decisive score...
...notice in this morning's (Saturday's) issue that Junior does himself and us the justice to claim his article under his right name. I notice, also, that the tone of his second communication makes amends for that of his first; its courteous seriousness is not susceptible of misinterpretation. He had originally overlooked the fact that an anonymous letter directed against the methods of any single person is sure, without extreme care, to carry with it personal implications...
...claim of the Catholic Church to absolute authority on questions of religion and morals can not be allowed, nor the doctrine of infallibility ever accepted. Even if the Catholic Church was right in the controversy concerning the meaning of the rock on which Christ founded his church, its claims to absolute authority and infallibility could not rest without being scouted. The impotency and falsity of the Catholic Church's policy are manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead...
...Harvard Athletic Association has a special claim upon the direct support of members of the University inasmuch as whatever income is derived from the few public meetings which it holds during the year falls far short of the amount necessary for meeting the annual expenses. Students can best give their support by joining the association. The admission fee is a very small sum considering that it entitles each member to the privileges of the association throughout his college course. The best time for everyone to join, is therefore the present...