Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brings out very clearly the subjugation of College Administrations to the moneyed interests." Perhaps they would like to see the College Office organized as a committee of public safety with the dean as a sort of academic Marat guillotining the offenders from the University. But the "Young Democrats" also claim that "Nobody would care to see these benighted Knights of Capital punished, least of all . . . . . the victim himself." But certainly when there is nobody with the desire to prosecute, one has little basis for even an academic Reign of Terror. We wonder just what our young friends would like...
...proposed establishment, as a permanent institution, of the American University Union, recently described as "the most popular rendezvous for our college men abroad," must claim the support of any collegian fortunate enough to get Paris leave while serving overseas...
Realizing the necessity of putting the profession in a place where it would gain the respect of larger numbers of the people who make up the lowlier walks of life and of making it more difficult for them to be imposed upon by those who little claim to be called lawyers, the profession during the past fifty-years has put on foot various reforms. Probably the greatest of these are first, the reform in procedure, second the raising of the standards required for those who desired to become members of the profession, and lastly the legal aid movement...
...which no one desires to be excluded. And yet the disruption of the class has prevented many men from being graduated this year, as well as made it impossible for others even to return to College. In extending the privilege of Class Day to all men who ever laid claim to 1919, the Seniors have recognized these facts. Men who technically are not rated as Seniors, and yet at any time have been associated with them officially are urged to be present. The older men grow, the more they appreciate class celebrations. The success of this year's depends upon...
...alumni, notably Charles O. Brewster '76, and the Harvard Department of Music--the object being to provide perfectly free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture. To this end the alumni subscribe each year a thousand dollars...