Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...point the way to a precedent in American academic life far broader than any the university had in mind in passing its present resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
...communication on the Freshman editorial was followed by an insulting note, and the original letter was, therefore, not published. In this instance the CRIMSON may not have followed the wisest policy; if so, it, regrets its decision, but one single instance does not furnish enough proof to substantiate the claim that the communication department is controlled by a clique or governed by any policy of hush...
...long as there is any evidence of success, these raids ought to be kept up and increased in power. No claim of humanity can now be considered; the Germans have lost their chance for gentle treatment. The only way to fight fire is with fire...
...peculiarities of our censorship are often laughed at, but sometimes articles and announcements are published that do positive harm, whether they are true or not. There have been featured very frequently remarks of inventors who claim they have a machine to end the war in a month or so. The story is put on the front page with a long if not prominent list of men who are backing the invention. We can all remember the famous discovery that was to end the submarine peril in a few months, but the average is as high as ever. Other miraculous...
...actual censorship of the opinions publicly expressed by its professors. Assuming authority to delete what it considers undesirable material, the college becomes incidentally and with fresh weight responsible for the material which it allows to remain. In this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim, to insist that the utterances of its many professors are in their essence expressions of personal and not of official opinion. The justice of this position, as it obtains in colleges which have not sought to establish a censorship, is one of the chief points emphasized by President Meiklejohn...