Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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However, we will guarantee you seventy-five dollars to defray your expenses and give you half the net gate receipts of the game. This is the best we can do for you, but I hope you will be able to accept these terms...
...life; they rather urge us on and we find joy in our triumph over them. When you relate to one contemplating suicide the woes which others have suffered, you base his consent to try again on manliness and pride, and he is easily moved to begin again. When we accept the pleasures of a life which is based on the sacrifice of the lower animals it involves the point of honor and demands of us unselfishness. Life, then, is worth living no matter what it brings, and probably the most adverse life would be worth living...
...enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers of a man, and so becomes decidedly active in shaping his own destiny. There is truth in these statements, but it needs all the American's love of self-sufficiency, and a little thoughtlessness besides, to accept that truth as an effective plea for the boarding school...
...Harvard Advocate editorial, criticizing Harvard's social life, has been read with great interest here. The Yale Alumni Weekly expresses the prevailing opinion of the article as follows: "We do not accept this estimate of Harvard by the very frank Advocate. It seems to us to be one of those cases where a disagreeable duty has been overdone...
...long as there was any chance that the Faculty would allow the attempt to be made, we urged its desirability, as did many of the Faculty themselves. But the decisive action which is now assured, essentially changes the situation. The University is confronted with the inevitable, and should accept it, as Captain Brewer well suggests, with gentlemanly good grace...