Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CORNELL, Columbia, and Yale are in a highly excited state over the prospect of our sending a crew to England. Cornell is particularly irritated, as she claims that the two races she won at Saratoga in six-oars entitle her to the "championship," and that Harvard has no right to go until she has defeated her in an eight-oared race. Yale and Columbia are equally anxious to have a race with Harvard, and let the winner of the race go to England as the "champion" college crew. What the "championship" has to do with it is not very clear...
...does Harvard claim the "championship"? Would she assume the title even if it were her due? We sincerely trust not; in this country of "champion pie-eaters," "champion walkers," etc., etc., we should hope that no gentleman or set of gentlemen would aspire to be called "champion" anything. As we understand it, Harvard proposes to send her eight, as Columbia did her four last year, merely as a college enterprise, and, without any regard for "championships" or "representative" college crews, to try if either of the English colleges can do in 1879 what they succeeded in doing...
...victory won, but the disgrace of 1876 is wiped out. Yale had a strong crew, and one that no one need be ashamed of; and if anything can take away from the bitterness of Yale's defeat, it is the excellent time they made. New London amply vindicated its claim to be the best place for the regatta. The course is all that can be desired, and, with the exception of telegraphic signals along the bank, the arrangements made for seeing and enjoying the race were excellent...
...race there appeared in several newspapers a reported conversation that Captain Cook had with several members of the press. Besides laying claim to the honor of being the man who has done more for rowing in America than any one else, and besides declaring his ability to coach Morris, he informs the public, with singular modesty, that he is the man who gave Waters of Troy the model of an English eight-oared shell, and it is due to his magnanimity that Harvard is rowing at present in a shell made after that model...
...appreciate the deceptive nature of cold liquor on a hot day, and advise that the custom of entertaining the graduating class be given up. They wish it distinctly understood that the Corporation does not pretend nor desire to act as a god-mother to our morals, but does claim the right to look after the property of the College and the propriety of the day, and they think their ends can be better accomplished by the classes using their influence to stop the abuses, than by direct interference on the part of the Corporation...