Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious and beautiful process by which...
...revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration...
...well attended meeting of the three classes of the Law School yesterday afternoon, the following business was transacted: Mr. H. M. Williams was chosen chairman of the meeting and Mr. M. C. Hobbs secretary. It was voted that the Law School accept the invitation to march with the college undergraduates in the procession. Joseph Lee, '83, was elected chief marshal, and H. B. Cabot, H. M. Williams and R. D. Smith were elected marshals from the third, second and first class respectively. These four marshals are also to act as a committee. This committee was instructed to submit its decision...
University of Pennsylvania has challenged Yale to an eight-oared race. It is understood that Yale will accept...
...seventh inning found the score even up on five runs. Edgerly hit sharply to Taylor, who did not accept the chance, and a put out, an error, and Wiestling's hit brought in Harvard's sixth run. Harvard now drew blanks for six consecutive innings, though four hits were made in that time, and five men were left on bases...