Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should be abolished as regards University athletics. With this move of the track management the crew will be the only one of the major teams left which derives its support in this way; and although we feel that the system should not be continued, the crew certainly has more claim upon it than any other sport because of large expenses and absence of gate receipts...
...improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule-tide season...
...season of giving thanks, a day of retrospection rather than of expectation, in which we may fairly acknowledge the benefits we receive as University men. Without this day of appreciation we are all too likely to pass over our special privileges,--the association with men of high standards, the claim to noble tradition, the opportunities for sound moral and mental development, and assume as no more than our deserts the favors which the University bestows. But these favors are so varied and the sources from which they arise so numerous, that we cannot always be blind to them...
...limited number of seats at your disposal and a demand which could probably make use of twice that number, the element of speculation will always appear. This is the situation which confronts the Athletic Association each year with regard to the Yale game seats. Certain people have greater claims to those seats than others and they are given the opportunity to procure tickets under those conditions which will insure to the majority of people who have equal claim an equal right to see the game. These conditions include the restriction that the recipient is charged with the duty of seeing...
Another week of hard rowing remains and then only a few days rest before the race. From all appearances it will be a race of an extremely lively and fast Harvard crew against the best Yale crew of recent years, with very little claim of superiority for either boat until they have actually measured their speed over the course...