Word: claiming
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...doubt about the two colleges having annual contests in rowing, base ball, and foot ball, and but little about track athletics; shooting matches appear to have become established as annual occurrences, and an effort is now being made to arrange bicycle races. Cricket surely has as strong a claim as any of the smaller sports, and possibly the strongest. With tennis it would fill out the list of sports which ought to be considered as a whole in deciding the athletic superiority of one college over the other. In view of the fact that Yale could undoubtedly organize a representative...
...claim of immemorial custom in congress is unfounded-Mr. Bayne in Cong. Record, February 11. 1890; Mr. Butter worth, February 2, ibid; Rules of forty-seventh and Fiftieth congresses, rule XVII...
...Cornell Sun is overcome with surprise in learning from the article in the Spirit of the Times, from which extracts were recently printed in the CRIMSON, that Yale does not claim the boating championship of American colleges. Cornell, the Sun says, defeated Bowdoin on Lake Quinsigamond, July 5, 1887, by two feet. The argument advanced by the Spirit of the Times, if supplemented by this fact clearly gives the championship to Cornell. Certainly the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson, in endorsing the statements of the Spirit of the Times make this concession. If Yale does not now claim...
...state that 'Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating' is to state a deliberate falsehood. Yale last held the championship in 1873; lost it to Columbia in 1874; has not held it since; has not claimed it since; does not now claim it, and probably never will claim it. The 'championship of American colleges in boating' lapsed with the death of the National Rowing Association of American colleges in 1876, and as Cornell won that championship in 1875 and 1876, the title, if it has not died of old age, must still rest with her oarsmen. In making...
...Yale. Equally true is it that since 1886, Yale has gained 213 such men to 193 for Harvard. But this increase has been made in the usual ratio. Between 1882, and 1886 the ratio of their gain was 22 from the west with a total gain of 38. I claim that it is not far wrong to say that the great increase in the number of western men at Yale is abnormal, just as it is fair to say that the immense growth of the whole college in late years is abnormal...