Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...table if they so desire. The nine will have its own captain and manager, and games will be arranged for it. It will also be a part of their work to play against the University nine. The management hope to see the plan succeed and unless it does will abandon...
...determined by the representatives of the Columbia College Boat Club and the Harvard University Boat Club that no date can be fixed and agreed upon which will be mutually convenient and satisfactory to both clubs, it is hereby mutually agreed by the undersigned representatives of said clubs to abandon the university race between Columbia and Harvard...
...committee has made a clear statement of the condition of its affairs, and everyone must see that it is a critical one. It is a sad thing when college patriotism has sunk so low as to require this question: "Will the University support its Committee and its Crew, or abandon the annual races at New London?" The college must rouse itself from this lethargy. We must support the University Crew, as they ask, and as they have a right to ask. There is no alternative. We cannot abandon the races at New London for such a reason. Let every...
...their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other is unquestionably wrong. To devote considerable time to the study and appreciation of them both is, it seems to us, the happy mean and the most rational course...
...preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment as an example. President Grevy refused to abandon his son-in law, and a hostile feeling arose between the president and the legislature. The monarchical factions seized this opportunity to overthrow the existing ministry, hoping to benefit from the confusion which would follow. All attempts to form a new ministry failed, and a revolution seemed inevitable. The dangerous...