Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates only in this college, consider that we can judge, with that judgment that comes from experience? Is it not better to trust to the foresight of our elders in experience at least; surely they realize the importance of the step they have taken, and are willing to accept the result, which they must sincerely believe will be only to our advantage. Is it not most discourteous to the faculty, our intended benefactors, if we tear to pieces their opinions and criticise them piecemeal, - we, only undergraduates who have scarcely reached our twenties? Surely we are not so vain...
...Justin Winsor and Mr. E. W. Hooper, who compose the committee in charge of the alterations in Gore Hall, have decided to accept the plans submitted by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects. Work upon the proposed changes will be begun immediately after the close of the college year...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Harvard Fencing Club last evening it was decided to accept Columbia's challenge for a contest, on condition that the latter send the trophy that Harvard won last year to the Harvard Fencing Club. The trophy, which is to be an appropriate brouze statuette, has not yet been completed. The executive committee took this stand on the ground that the Harvard club could not be challenged for a trophy that it has never received, and also that the symbol of the victory of last year's team might be publicly exhibited...
...while Exeter is "entirely neglected." So far as the Glee Club is concerned, let me say that the Andover concert was given by invitation, an invitation which the success of the last Andover concert, as well as the pressing need of the football team, made us very glad to accept...
There was a meeting of the officers of the Lacrosse Association last night in 32 Hastings. Six or seven recent challenges were considered and it was decided to accept three of them. The manager is trying to arrange for at least two games to be played in Cambridge...