Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what I deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating-men; and, second, because I could not claim to have been a University oar. But now that the idol of the Harvard oar has received one square blow, I am tempted to endeavor to administer another, hoping thereby to knock said idol completely off its pedestal, and smash it into flinders. Complete iconoclasm is what is needed...
...which a man's knowledge may be gauged, as tea and coffee are measured out by the system of weights and measures; to classify two hundred men and say not only that this one knows more than another, but that he knows just so much more, is to claim that the human intellect is capable of making an infinitely fine distinction. It is no wonder therefore that those who arrange for us such matters as marks, degrees, etc., have called something to their aid which is perfectly definite. It is easy to say that this man has given so many...
NOTMAN is already presenting his claim to the appointment of photographer to the Senior class...
...would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would all be raised, that is, from the condition of eye-servants to the state of men who feel responsibility, and act accordingly. Until this is done we can never seriously claim that Harvard is anything more than a high school...
...There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired...