Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Advocate is glad to welcome, discuss and criticise any literary effort of a Harvard undergraduate. That it offers an encouraging and instructive field to the man who likes to dip pen in ink, is its only claim to usefulness...
...Hunt's ballital shows surprising success in a very difficult form of verse. A fantasy like Mr. C. H. Dickerman's "The Haunted Palace" could only be regarded as successful through the excellence of its technique. But the writer allows himself too much license to claim any triumph of this kind. Whenever the thought presses against the limits of the verse, the verse gives way and changes its form. This is hardly playing the game...
...full quarter-century of business. Beginning in unpretentious fashion in 1882 with small quarters in one of the College buildings it has steadily increased its volume of business until during the past fiscal year its total sales have approximated the sum of $300,000 and have given the Society claim to rank as one of the largest mercantile establishments in Cambridge. Any member of Harvard University, of Radcliffe College, or of the Episcopal Theological School is entitled to become a participating member of the Society and thus to obtain an annual dividend on practically all purchases made during the year...
...Senior Class is always the class to be supremely considered, and all should co-operate to make the day as pleasant for their invited guests as possible. Every ticket used by a person who has no real claim, makes the Yard so much more crowded and makes the invitation to real friends of so much less value...
...started which would in time turn the Union into a species of mausoleum, and would detract from the home-like aspect of its interior. We feel that such fears are groundless. Dean Shaler's position in the University was so unique, that there will be few men whose claim for a memorial in the Union can be based upon the precedent of a bas-relief or bust of Dean Shaler. Nor do we feel that a few such memorials, if suitably chosen and located, will in any way injure the livable atmosphere of the Union. Memorial Hall, for example...