Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard from the Intercollegiate Football League was due to the fact that the intense competition within that League had led to objectionable practices in all the colleges, which, as was proved at the meetings held in New York on Nov. 4 and 14, Princeton could not be brought to abandon by amicable agreement. The chief of these objectionable practices are-first, inducing good players to enter college, or to return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation...
President Seelye of Amherst college has been obliged through ill health to abandon his duties for the year. At his departure for Europe on Monday all the students turned out in a body and cheered him as his train left the station...
...think it would hurt the freshmen to receive a little advice from the captain and members of the University eight, who will not be slow to inform them that unless they abandon the stroke under which they have attained such snail-like velocity, and take a tremendous "brace" all round they are destined to a terrible defeat in every race...
...anomaly that our colleges should teach a system which is directly opposed to the settled tariff policy adopted by our country almost from its foundation, and which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem...
...spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style of writing, and confine itself to honest, good-natured humor...