Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to go to England under no false pretences. We do not claim to be the champion four of American colleges. No such thing exists, and the attempts of our contemporaries to manufacture the title are as absurd as their protest against our supposed assumption of it." - Acta Columbiana...
...duty of those who would have the prevailing moral tone not maudlin but manly to express themselves in a gentlemanly but clear manner against the indecencies with which students are now so familiar. The present foolish tone of morals in some college circles is due, not, as some newspapers claim, to the non-religious character of the University, but largely to the silence of students on such questions as we have been discussing, - a silence due in some cases to a love of ease and a hatred of all friction of intercourse, and in others to the fear of blackballs...
...YALE'S claim to the foot-ball championship is disputed, and with good reason, by Princeton. Says the Princetonian: "This fall, we have beaten Harvard and Columbia, and played a drawn game with Yale. Yale has not played Columbia, refused to meet Harvard, and had one drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence...
...amount asked from each individual is not large: no class need claim the honor of having given more than another, and surely no class wishes to be left out of the inscription. We shall all leave a fitting reminder of Harvard's prowess in the ball-field of which we may well be proud...
...play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon by all the colleges. The captain of our team wishes it distinctly understood that he does not recognize their claim, and declines playing this fall on any conditions...