Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is but one word to say in regard to Professor White's decision, - the college is heartily glad that he is going to remain. If he had considered it best to accept the work at Chicago the college was prepared to abide by his decision and bear its loss; and now that he has decided to stay at Harvard, the college welcomes him back again as it were, with rejoicing...
President Andrews, of Boston University, will probably not accept Dr. Harper's call to a chair in the graduate department of Chicago University...
...practically three purposes; to a building devoted (1) solely to religious purposes, (2) largely to religious purposes with accommodations for a few literary societies, or (3) to religious purposes and social purposes equally as well. And now the practical part of the question comes, - would the Corporation accept a gift on these conditions, and on which? In discussing the subject this feature should be kept in mind...
This statement that the dates "offered by Yale could not be acted upon until the Harvard delegates had conferred with their Advisory Committee," is misleading. The Harvard delegates refused to accept Yale's proposition in the matter of dates not because of the necessity of consulting the Advisory Committee, but because that proposition was manifestly inequitable. The Harvard delegates had full power to arrange dates, and their refusal to accept those proposed by Yale was final...
Professor Herman E. Von Holst, has consented to leave Freiburg University to accept an appointment to the chair in History. He is a statesman as well as historian, being a member of the Upper house in Germany; he is also an honored fellow in the Prussian Academy of Sciences...