Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Princeton men have no confidence in their Nine, at least they never bet on it. We hardly claim it as due to the revival influence over them, or to a high degree of moral perfection. They did n't bet and would n't bet under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around...
...student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...congratulate the Vassar Mis. upon reaching the expected end of "Man versus Hairpin," a story which bears resemblance to no other known literary work except "The House that Jack Built," with which it may reasonably claim kin. One easily gets the run of duplicate and duplicated, - "This is the girl who loved the man," etc. The number is, however, one of Vassar's usual merit. The Editor's Table thus sets forth negatively the chief...
...take the more fortunate case, where the examinations are pleasantly sprinkled all along the dusty road, oases as it were in the dreary waste of college life. Even there, I claim, the time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...
...funds. Where this poverty will be unavoidably and disastrously felt is in the matter of new boats; and it is here that the graduates can best help us, here that they can best prove the interest they profess in us, and best establish a foundation for the right they claim of influencing the boating policy of Alma Mater; for representation without taxation is as unjust as taxation without representation...