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Word: claimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article appearing in one of the current undergraduate literary publications, a charge hurled with all the vigor of intellectual potency which it denies in others, a charge which cries out for the undergraduates to rise and prove their intellectual worth before it is too late. The basis for this claim that the youth in College at the present day have passed their intelectual prime and are tottering in dotage seems to rest on "the observable tendency of the College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form of professorial pressure on students to conform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER FALSE GODS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...sound intellectual operation, which takes discipline, and words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For the latter to get the cold shoulder at Harvard does not mean the College is old before its time, but rather that it is mature beyond its years. That is not a bad claim to distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER FALSE GODS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...predominantly sound are dull, or backward because they are conservative. In every department of the University will be found professors who have led the parade in their field. It would be insulting to the average student to name them: they are legion. It is equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with men of reknown not just in Cambridge, but in the country over, for their achievements in their chosen line of endeavour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER FALSE GODS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...this victory Chancery Club lays claim to the ping pong championship of the Law School and challenges all University teams for further competition. James Cushing Bayley, Jr. '31 awaits any offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenges Accepted | 12/14/1937 | See Source »

Leading 55 colleges and universities listed, Harvard may claim 823 distinguished "contributing" alumni, says the dictionary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 823 Distinguished Harvard Men | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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