Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...high, an unexpected weakness gave Princeton the chance of victory which she was still able to take. This particular disappointment is very trying. Former games have somewhat accustomed Harvard to chagrin at the sight of "star" backs helpless for lack of proper interference; but it is hard to accept the fact that the staying power of the team has been overestimated. Still, though the physical training of the men is a point in which much pride has been taken, the lesson of the game with Princeton must not be disregarded. Repeated defeat must be made the guide to victory...
...National Civil Service Reform League, some time ago promised to address the Harvard Club, and the secretary has sent him an invitation to do so in the near future. Mr. Schurz is one of the greatest living civil service reform exponents, and it is hoped that he will accept the invitation...
...strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again and rides...
...learning Harvard's attitude, and to Mr. Stewart who came to Cambridge Oct. 1, to lay a statement before the Harvard Athletic Committee. Harvard has at all times throughout the present controversy, up to, and including Oct. 5, been ready to let bygones be by gones and to accept an invitation from Yale to meet her in football or in all the sports either for one year or for a term of years. Harvard as the defeated party opened negotiations in April for a football game. Yale officially terminated these negotiations by Captain Thorne's letter...
...junior appointments were made public on Saturday, but the changes in the membership rules of Phi Beta Kappa have robbed them of the greatest interest. That society will no longer accept two years work, and not until the winter vacation will the final standing be announced...