Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vote of Harvard students who are qualified voters of other states would normally be distributed all over the country, and only a few of their votes would count in any one choice of an elector. Supposing then that we are really foreigners in Massachusetts, how can we claim the right to concentrate our vote for Presidential electors here in this one spot and possibly alter the result in this district, thus making it appear that Cambridge has chosen an elector pledged to support a candidate whom the majority of her citizens do not favor...
...Dawson 3L, in introducing the Republican side of the argument, attached the Underwood Tariff Law, claiming that the Democratic party is not responsible for the present prosperity; but the European war is, and that to claim this is to say that the Democratic party is responsible for the European...
...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
Here we are still tolerant, as much because of our geographical isolation as our political neutrality. French and German claim about the same number of devotees; Psychology A and Slavio A retain their former popularity. Indeed, our error is far more often on the side of indifference than of intolerance. However, it is well that one of the world's centres of learning rejects partisanship when many others are blinded, and we can only hope that post-bellum patriotism will not affect Harvard's internationalism...
...intercollegiate baseball title is generally an honor difficult to place, but the record of the 1916 team to date gives it an excellent claim. Individually the men are not above the average, but success of the team as a unit has been phenomenal. It is strong as an aggregation, has made a strong record, and in the Yale series will make a strong bid for the two championships that came to the University last year; the intercollegiate championship, and the supremacy in the three-cornered league of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton