Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Elihu Root, "genuine, sincere, devoted; men who do not so much talk about their love of country or their passion for liberty as men that do love their country and do love their liberty so much that they are willing to give liberty to others as well as claim it for themselves; . . . men who, upon the basis of plain, practical and sensible hard work in the ordinary affairs of life, carry ever a noble idealism and a sincere capacity for self-devotion...
...South is proud to claim Harvard graduates who are always among most prominent citizens. Although have many universities in the South with no mean standing, still our most brilliant lawyers and ablest ministers usually come from Harvard...
Colgate eliminated Brown from any claim to the Eastern football championship by scoring a decisive 28-to-0 victory against the Providence eleven in yesterday's game. With a remarkable season's record of victories, Brown entered the contest confident of a win, but in no department of the game did the losers equal the Colgate team. Pollard, whose wonderful work against the University and Yale stamped him as one of the greatest backs in the game, was ineffective on a slippery field, and at no time proved dangerous. The Colgate eleven displayed a bewildering assortment of trick plays...
...figures of its registration which Cornell University has just published it appears that Cornell can lay good statistical claim this year to title as the most national university in the United States. Cornell has students from every last one of the states of the Union, one territory, and four dependencies. Since it so happens that Harvard lacks Arizona from its student membership this year, Cornell can go Harvard just this one better, even thought it is evident that this index of universality is by no means an adequate or even an important test of an institution's national character...
...Year by year to your feet come new men; year by year that band of men, who claim the honor of bearing your name, increases in number, for four short years we live among the places which the magic of tradition has turned to shrines. And to those same shrines through all the long after-years we shall turn for sustenance of life...