Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change have, almost invariably, cited the educational systems of England and Germany in support of their argument. They bring up the fact that in the English preparatory schools and the German gymnasia classical instruction goes much farther than it does in similar institutions in this country. They claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable movement in England for making the classics elective in the preparatory schools. Professor Huxley, the noted scientist, and, moreover...
...Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its cultivation unless the student of delicate physique right gallantly arrayed in bib and tucker, kicks just five pounds avoirdupois, and stands out of sight of the rest of the team...
...truly educated who can point out a Greek root in an English derivative, and quote Sophocles and Plautus, will hold the view that Harvard's walls will be filled by "superficial practicalists." Others who believe that educated men should be something beside curiosity hunters in the dead languages will claim that the young men who are to make future discoveries and benefit mankind with living truths, will see at Harvard an opportunity for beginning their good work. If this latter view be true, there is being planted the seed of a national university...
...undergoing at the hands of our faculty, let us remember that some things still deserve attention until proved to be worthless. Whether the future freshman shall offer a supposed knowledge of the use of the ablative in Plautus or the power of reaching a mathematical infinity, as his claim for admittance, is of small moment with respect to one matter. We can well afford to allow the future freshman to fret and terrify his soul over the classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none the less a recognition of our power to read the classics...
...however mortified or sullen I may be, I can never feel guilty or penitent. It is as hard to argue us out of the consciousness of guilt, as it is to argue us into the consciousness of real desert: for while virtue is too wise and humble to claim any merit, sin is so proud and foolish that it will be always bragging...