Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...favor of the principle of arbitration. They must therefore be in favor of such a permanent court of arbitration unless they can point out specific dangers in the idea of a permanent court, in its jurisdiction or in its composition. Otherwise they stand convicted of refusing to accept the logical result of their own position...
Heredity and environment must be considered in making any system of education. While personality can not be undone, we can accept its conditions and build thereon as best...
...France, England and Germany architecture closely followed the Italian model. Step by step in France the stony fortresses gave place to the chateaux. But Frenchmen, refusing to accept Italian ideas in their entirety, adapted them to their own use. The grand houses of the time of the Valois are full of suggestion, and many of them form the models of houses of today. With the age of Louis XIV. grace and caprice in building take the place of gravity and severity...
...March 26.- Manager Turner of the Princeton track team received a communication some time ago from the manager of the University of California track team expressing a desire to meet the Princeton team in joint games or in the Yale-Princeton invitation games. He decided today to accept the offer meeting them in the Yale-Princeton games...
...Rich has refused to accept any remuneration for his services. He was manager of the N. Y. A. C. cycle team, has been connected with cycling either as a racing man or as a trainer for ten years, and the Cycling Association feel much gratified to be able to have the advice and supervision of so experienced a trainer...