Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...read the signs, the time when all the 'varsity teams will be mutually self-supporting is not far off. The graduate treasurer speaks most encouragingly of it; everything points to it. Cannot the Harvard Athletic Association trust to it and the generosity of the University and abandon this unjust rule...
...Manhattan Athletic Club has abandon the idea of holding a three days' athletic carnival. It has been decided instead to give a one day's entertainment, which will be purely athletic. It will take place at Madison Square Garden early in March...
...pride and satisfaction, feeling that every opportunity to elevate and broaden our scholarship has been eagerly improved. If this long and honorable record is now to be closed and our policy reversed; if our degree is to be degraded by our own free act, we shall be compelled to abandon our position as leaders in American scholarship and to take our places without excuse in the second rank. It must never be forgotten that, with all our improvement, we have not yet reached any such height of scholarship that we can afford to lower our standard-indeed we cannot lower...
About the first of this month the weather became so bad that it was determined to abandon the river until spring. The candidates then went into the gymnasium where they have been coached daily by Capt. Perkins. A number of new men have begun work and there are at present 17 men at training, including Perkins. Yesterday the candidates were rowing as follows...
...closing lectures Professor Royce will abandon his position as chronicler to expound his own theories...