Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Company. Slavery was abolished, and affairs took on a better aspect. Meanwhile, the Boers who had gone to the Transvaal were oppressing the natives cruelly, and frequent complaints began to be heard. The Boers, however, soon formed an independent government and refused all allegiance to any outside power. A claim on the Orange Free State, made in 1857 by the Boers, was followed by years of internal strife and native revolts. In 1877 the government was deeply in debt and wholly without resources, and in this condition the country was annexed by Great Britain...
...Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin now in the average mind is not worth fighting for." We have heard the claim advanced by a modern Greek that classic Greek should be taught as a living language because modern Greek is a living continuation of it. Professor Santayana's position is somewhat similar: He regards the Roman culture and language from the point of view of the so-called Latin races...
...volume of selections. But Mr. Rideout has chosen so wisely, has used such good judgment in picking out those letters which are most interesting and valuable, and which enable the reader to form the truest conception of Gray and his environment that the volume has an extra claim to the welcome of the public. The introduction--but twenty pages long--gives all the facts necessary to an understanding of Gray's work. Mr. Rideout has succeeded in weaving into this brief narrative facts enough of description and criticism to help the reader to an idea of Gray's personality...
...than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though of the future in his desires, must be of the present in his deeds. In other words, expediency is better than idealism. This is a false view to hold, however; party lines are rapidly dissolving in these days, and no party dares claim...
...greatly out weighed by the gains reaped by both students and universities." "From a Graduates' Window" comes a remarkably well-informed and vigorous protest against the "athletocracy" that has sprung up in the great body of past athletes and coaches and present members of the Athletic Association to claim first choice in the distribution of football tickets. The condition last fall "simply shows how far professionalism has cankered our athletes' notions of propriety." "No arrangement will be satisfactory," the article concludes, "which fails to recognize that the College sports are primarily for the students, and not for the graduates...