Word: claims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...claim which is continually advanced that the elective system encourages the election of soft courses is compared with cold statistics, which show that the higher courses, those requiring earnest original work, are the most popular...
...Williams Literary Magazine on base-ball, as given yesterday on our first page, are interesting and somewhat significant. Because so this magazine says, it is a foregone conclusion that Harvard, Yale and Princeton will take the first three places in the present league, and because it is always claimed, "whether the claim be just or not," that the umpires are partial to the larger colleges, and finally because Williams herself has no possibility of getting into the league as now constituted, the plan of forming a new league to include Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and Williams, is urged. Amherst and Dartmouth...
...Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled...
Twenty-two American students have left St. Laurent College, Montreal. They claim that they have had improper food and that small pox has broken out among the students...
...particulars Harvard may unquestionably claim superiority over all other colleges in America, in her library and in her gymnasium. Yet, strange to say, of no two things do Harvard men seem less appreciative. The gymnasium and library are both used by a large number of men, but not by as many men as ought to use them. We do not think it necessary to enumerate the advantages of either of these institutions, but we do think that a little urging is not out of place. Different though the institutions are in the ends for which they were built, their benefit...