Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Orient accept occidental christianity...
...Since the recent Harvard-Pennsylvania football game, the newspaper criticisms of decisions rendered by the umpire and referee have induced a popular belief that the University of Pennsylvania is unwilling to accept the result of the game without protests and explanations. It happens, also, that charges of unfairness, purporting to emanate from Harvard, have been preferred publicly against Pennsylvania as respects the playing of Brooke upon her team...
Columbia College has been challenged by the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin to boat races next year. Minnesota will come East in the spring, paying all expenses, if Columbia will go West the following year. Columbia will probably accept, if the events do not interfere with the tri-collegiate race at Poughkeepsie...
Life is not a gift, for a gift is something which we can either accept or reject as we please. We must accept life because it is imposed upon us by a will higher than our own. We should thank God, not for life, but for its chances...
...attempt was also made to arrange a match with the whist club at Princeton after the game last Saturday but Princeton did not accept Harvard's challenge...