Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar, he can at least claim acquaintance; and the same principle applies to every other leading branch of knowledge...
Columbia has had a very successful season, having won all the four games played up to this time. The team has defeated Yale, Pennsylvania, Haverford and Cornell. The result of today's game may settle the intercollegiate championship. If the Columbia team wins, it will have an undisputed claim to the championship; in case of a Harvard victory, the University team will play a second game with Yale...
There is a good deal of feeling around College that basketball should be abolished as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, because some men claim that they think the game, as it is played today, is bad. But these same men say that intercollegiate basketball should be allowed. What I want to know is, what the difference might be between the game as played between two colleges and the game as played between two classes? In my opinion if the game is dropped as an intercollegiate sport, the Athletic Committee should at least be consistent and abolish it entirely...
...citizen today owes to his fellow-countrymen all the use he can make of his power, dependent on his vocation in the community, for some professions are more widely looked to for public benefits than others. We cannot claim that the theatre has been neglected socially or commercially; but as a civic institution it has been overlooked and ignored...
...principal reasons for making the change were that Carlisle is not strictly a college and so has less claim to a place on the schedule than Brown, and that the latter will better fill the requirements of the schedule...