Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last meeting of the Board of Directors of the Dining Hall it was voted that the Hall be kept open during the spring recess. Those members who remained will have to pay the regular price for board, and those who left Cambridge can claim, on their return, temporary absence allowance for that time. "Any member who withdraws from the Association within the week prior to the recess and joins again within the same limit after the recess, whether with the intention of avoiding his share of the charge or not, will be considered as temporarily absent." Breakfast will be served...
Columbia. - Owing to internal dissensions, Colgate and Boyd have left this crew. The trouble was disagreement about money matters, and a claim to the stroke seat set up by Colgate against Goodwin. The crew continues training, however, having Sage as bow, Edson and Ridabock, the former substitutes, in the midships, and Goodwin as stroke...
...were brought into some sort of shape. It is asserting but little to say that Mr. Goddard took a good deal of pains coaching the Freshmen, and it is but just to him to say that they greatly improved under his care. While he does not lay claim to a professional's skill in coaching, Mr. Goddard deserves, instead of thoughtless criticism, a recognition of the faithfulness and ability with which he has performed so unenviable a task...
...race: "If the only question on which depends the race between these Universities is that of championship, we think neither this nor any other contest can take place until American rowing assumes a far different aspect from that which now exists. As matters stand, no college crew can lay claim to the championship...
...because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia, whom Harvard beat at Springfield. Columbia seems no crew to represent American colleges, and the graceful thing would be for her to resign. Cornell protests; Harvard does not, and will not." The N. Y. Country says, "Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin had no rank at home...