Word: accept
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Verein voted to accept the offer of A. C. White '02, to engage again an instructor for a class in conversational German open to members. One or two short plays will be given during the spring...
Several men have been nominated for both an office and a committee. All who desire to do so may vote for these men for both positions; and if elected to both, the nominee will accept the office and resign from the committee...
...repudiated a just obligation which it owed to a European government. The creditor state has acted fairly and consented to arbitrate its claim. The debtor state has acted of its own free will in consenting to the Hague tribunal as a referee, and is in honor bound to accept the decision. We must presume that this decision was just, and that it set a reasonable time within which the South American country could have collected the sum and paid...
Victor Hugo though himself a great heretic in religion, but here again he exaggerated. Probably, indeed, he would have refused to accept any credal statement about the Christ, but he had nevertheless a deep reverence for the biblical story and a profound recognition of its influence and benefits. He believed in God and immortality and constantly avowed his belief in His works...
...Wednesday, at a meeting of the presidents of the chess clubs of Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Princeton, it was decided to accept the challenge which was recently received from Oxford and Cambridge, for the fifth annual cable chess match for the Isaac L. Rice trophy. The match will be held in April, and the American players will play at the rooms of the Boston Athletic Association...