Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale corporation has voted to accept the plans for a new dormitory, which will cost $100,000 and will be erected from the funds of the college...
Tonight the second annual debate with Princeton takes place in Sanders Theatre. We wish the Harvard speakers success; but whatever the result of the debate may be, they should accept it with philosophy, feeling sure that their efforts have been appreciated by the University and that their fellow students are proud of their work. Today, however, we are unwilling to consider any but a successful outcome of the debate. We have the greatest confidence in the speakers who are to represent the University, and we look forward to seeing another victory added to Harvard's already unbroken record...
Notwithstanding the objections recently made, the advisory committee on debating has decided to accept the question offered by Yale for the 'varsity debate. The question reads: "Resolved, That a permanent court of arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain...
...Harvard Chess Club yesterday received a challenge from the Yale Chess Club to play two games of chess by correspondence. At the last meeting of the Chess Club it was voted that the secretary should accept such a challenge (of which notice had already been given) at once, in view of the lateness of the season. A committee composed of E. E. Southard '97, chairman, C. H. Dunn '96, and A. W. Ryder '97, has been appointed to manage the games, which are to begin at once. Harvard has white in one game and black in the other...
...father's death he was obliged to leave college. He taught school and engaged in various other occupations, but finally settled upon the law as his profession. He studied law under the firm of Brown and Alger, in Boston, but gave up his studies in 1863 to accept a position in the Commissary Department at Newburn, N. C. While there he was seized with malarial fever, and returned to Lowell. He was admitted...