Word: claiming
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...under which one man is given the responsibility of distributing outside of and at the same time with the regular distribution, several thousand tickets according to his discretion. These tickets are given out in all parts of the field; the position depending upon the strength of the applicant's claim. Is it surprising that under the stress of such a responsibility the management finds itself unable to distribute the other tickets according to schedule, that, for instance, H. A. A. members, contrary to agreement, were assigned seats on or behind the goal lines, while ordinary undergraduate applications were filled with...
...Brewer Eddy, in his address last evening to the Christian Association, on "The Opportunity for Students in the Missionary Enterprise," emphasized most strongly the great claim which missionary work must have upon every enlightened man and especially upon college students...
...Stebbins says in his preface, "One would not claim for the poems here presented the depth of a Browning nor the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard...
...purely commercial interest in politics; by it, therefore, members are sent to our legislatures who are the creatures of a few "wire pullers," and act only according to their orders. Another evil is always present in the larger cities. This is bribery for protection against adverse legislation. The claim is made that such vote-buying has become indispensable to the safety of large corporate interests. Of course, honest primaries would do away with this evil; yet for every man bought there must be a buyer, and on is just as dishonest as the other...
...writings of Clement of Rome, within a generation after the death of Paul, is first prescribed the reverence and obedience due to officers of the church--not, now, as men of lofty spirituality alone--but as those clothed with the dignity of established rank. Men followed the clerical claim of apostolic succession and the corollary claims of especial spiritual grace; then came, too, the increased importance of the eucharist as a sacrament and the priest as the only one competent to administer it, and in these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full...