Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Jacob S. Cooper has decided not to accept the chair of Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion at the Michigan University, but to remain at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, as professor of Greek...
...well known that men when in college, as a rule, will accept few advantages which they are not forced to, and also that after graduation they, with as few exceptions, thoroughly regret this neglect. Especially is this true of contributing to the college papers. Leaving out of consideration the benefit to those who later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble...
...fact that Mr. Colburn's readers reported so unfavorably of "Pelham" that the manuscript was on the point of being returned to the author, when the publisher happened to glance at the first chapter, and was so struck by it that he at once decided to accept the work, and he paid L500...
...learn that the oarsmen of Harvard have determined to strike out from the beaten path and give the University of Pennsylvaniathe opportunity which by their recent challenge they showed they were desirous of. The men of Cambridge say they will accept the challenge, which is news that cannot be otherwise than acceptable to all who are interested in the advancement of boating interests among our collegians.[Clipper...
...evils that follow in the train of a regular system of examinations," says the writer, "we know of none greater than a certain habit of indolence which it forms in the mind. It encourages a student-nay, even in the press of competition it almost forces him-to accept his judgments ready-made. He wants to know what others say of a writer, not what the writer himself says. He has no time to take a book home, as it were, and make it part of himself. He never 'travels over the mind' of a great author till he becomes...