Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perkins has resigned the principalship of Phillips Exeter Academy to accept the presidency of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, on a salary of $5,500 per annum. Dr. Perkins has been connected with Exeter Academy for eight years...
...Perkins, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, has resigned to accept the principalship of Adelphi College, Brooklyn...
...once taken up as a challenge by advocates of protection. The superintendent of the thread mills at Willimantic, Conn., embraced the opportunity to invite a number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were well worth the journey, surrounded as they were by every evidence of happiness and prosperity. The delegation of students left much impressed...
...Will the I. C. A. A. so far forget her self-respect as to accept membership in the A. A. A. on such terms?" is the indignant question with which the News closes its invective. We sincerely hope that the I. C. A. A. will not so far forget its self-respect as to refuse an invitation, asked for by itself, simply because it is informed from outside sources that it has been unfairly treated...
...indeed interesting. Practically an American colony, it adopted in the main our constitution; but had the wisdom to make certain changes therein. For instance, the president of the republic may restrict his veto to different items of an appropriation bill, instead of being forced, as with us, to accept that which is bad for the sake of what is good, or reject that which is good because the bad predominates...