Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better to obtain this required rest by playing tennis or ball, or by playing cards and billiards, and going to the theatre. It is surely better to be storing up health and energy for future use, than to adopt the latter course, which, though generally considered harmless, cannot claim decided advantages...
...rival, while, if we accept the testimony of the Globe and Herald, it should have been placed to the credit of our freshmen, since the faulty decisions of the umpire helped the freshman team from New Haven to add five runs to its score. But though we cannot lay claim to a point gained in the contest for the freshman championship, we can contemplate with satisfaction the steps already taken toward the acquisition of two other, and more important, championships. By the game with Yale we have proved our ability to play a strong and steady game under the strain...
...Higginson spoke first. He did not think drinking intoxicants a sin in itself, like murder and theft. Nobody can call it such a sin. Some claim that intoxicants sharpen the wits, which is not so, and is couriously inconsistent with common facts. Often at our dinners the brightest speeches are made by the cold water men. Following are reasons for total abstinence, (1) every young man should seek to make the best of himself and avoid all the risks (which are great) of intemperance; (2), he should aim at simplicity of habits, striking the key of his life moderately...
...Boston Record thinks that it is significant, as showing how Boston muscle is at a premium, that not only the champion prize fighter hails from their centre of culture, but that seventeen of the thirty-two members of the Harvard class crews claim Boston as their home...
...opinion of boarders who can remember '82-3, will, however, refute this supposition. The board has been continually improved during the last two years. Mutton stew and beef stew are both nightmares of the past. Substantial dinners and wholesome lunches are assured facts. No one can for a moment claim that poor board has been the cause for this increasing tendency to order extras. The low price has been one cause for this fact. Everyone will order more readily if he feels that the normal price-$4.00-has been reached. This growth of the order system proves that the richer...