Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Chess Club has decided to accept the challenge of Andover for an inter-club match, which will probably be held Wednesday evening December 1, in Upper Dane Hall. No definite arrangements have as yet been made about the match with the University of California...
...game between the Freshmen and the Groton School eleven yesterday afternoon resulted in a tie, neither side scoring. Though heavier than their opponents the Freshmen were outplayed both in quickness and the general knowledge of the game. From the start they seemed unable to accept their chances and though five times on Groton's five yard line, were unable to score. This inability to score when the opportunity presented itself was chiefly due to fumbling caused partly by the wretched condition of the field. Had the Freshmen played in the first half as hard and fast a game as they...
...meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening, it was decided to accept the plan proposed of taking charge of a reading room at 1066 Washington street, Boston. The club expects to raise the necessary funds, and keep a man at the reading room every evening during the college year...
...other hand, has no such plea of carelessness to vindicate herself for not gaining the coveted four yards to the Yale line. To rush the ball only four yards, after the determined attack on Yale's line which had netted so many gains, should have been inevitable. Failure to accept such a chance may have been largely due to the generalship at such a critical stage. It certainly seems reasonable to suppose that those four yards could have been covered with more certainty by Bouve than by lighter men like Cabot, Parker and Garrison. However, even with those men carrying...
Dartmouth is anxious to cancel her Thanksgiving day game with the Newton Athletic Association, and to accept the offer of Brown to play in New York on that day. Last year Brown and Dartmouth played a tie game...