Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abstracting influence of outside work may seem to the undergraduates rather severe but at all events he is impartial in his severity. Every busy man will admit that his routine studies are sacrificed more or less to his societies, his papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time is not wasted. Professor Briggs makes us laugh at our own follies but he would be the last man to advocate an abridgement of the freedom of thought and action which is the occasion of those follies which he deplores...
...Garrison's "Why I am not a Republican." Whether we agree with him or not in his violent outcry against the Republican party, we must deplore the admission of party politics into college journalism. The Monthly has not lived up to its literary standard, for the article can hardly claim recognition on the ground of its literary merit...
This form of reasoning is pardonable under the enthusiasm generated by a crowded political meeting and a brass band. But it is worse than bad taste for either party to claim Harvard as a protecting Deity in a quarrel which no sane man a week from election day would regard as having the same moral weight as the Rebellion. How the honorable Democrats found out so conclusively that old Harvard men from 1636 to the present era would have voted for Cleveland and Tariff Reform can be referred to the same source that inspired the assertions of Friday night...
...country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than whether Grover Cleveland has maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best...
...papers, the glee club, and other college organizations must eventually fall into the hands of '92, and it is not now too early for them to begin to equip themselves for the coming responsibilities. We certainly expect the freshmen to prove their claim to their position, and would suggest to them the motto: "Work never hurt a freshman...