Word: claiming
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...members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive use of a small class of men. The athletes in this respect are a privileged set; they claim the University colors as their distinctive mark, and the college at large, more by indifference than anything else, has supported them. It may be urged that the members of the various athletic organizations are entitled to a certain mark of distinction for their peculiar services to the college. This...
...rather at a loss to account for the appearance in the Advocate of such a nondescript piece of writing as the lines entitled "A Vapid Vaporing." We have thought that none but articles which had some claim to literary merit were published in this paper, but here we find something that is entirely out of place. The high tone of the other articles is lowered by the presence of these verses, which, if they were in their proper place, might call for our approval. Perhaps the best thing in the present number is the stanza, "A Memory: to Nightfall...
...March number of the Monthly appeared yesterday. The chief claim of this number to excellence lies in the fact that it is fortunate enough to present articles by Dr. Dr. A. P. Peabody and Mr. Francis C. Lowell...
...prayer. The chief mode of conveyance is the donkey, and the city is full of these strong little beasts, posted at every corner in charge of boys. The population of the city is about 400,000, and the native part is made up of Moslems and Coptic Christians who claim to be the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. The Moslems are very bigoted and distrust foreigners, but are slowly improving under European influence...
...most extraordinary literary enterprises of the age is Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language. It is much more than a "Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge." It is also a dictionary of the English language, including every word which has a just claim to a place in the language...