Word: acceptance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Willoughby has resigned his position as instructor in Economics, to accept an appointment as Treasurer of Porto Rico, which President Roosevelt has conferred upon him. Mr. Willough by lectured the last half of last year on the labor question in Europe and the United States. Mr. E. D. Durand, Secretary of the United States Industrial Commission, will probably take Mr. Willoughby's courses, Economics...
...decide whether or not we shall accept this conception today. Some explanation of how man and the world came into existence and what are their destinies is absolutely essential to satisfy the inward cravings of human nature. Thinking men of all ages have been able to suggest but two ways of accounting for man and the world: one by supposing them the creations and creatures of great mechanical, dead "natural" laws, the other by supposing them due to natural laws, but laws the manifestation and will of divine intelligence...
...national ideal, and yet it is the plain, over-mastering duty of the citizen in a free land. It is much for the loser in such a fierce struggle as our civil war, to give up the ideal for which he has paid the last price, and to accept the outcome with a fine magnanimity as our brothers of the South have done. They have recognized that this whole country is theirs as well as ours...
...also decided not to accept Columbia's invitation for the winning club senior crew to race the Columbia second on the Harlem in their spring regatta, June 8. Columbia, in answer to the Harvard challege for their second crew to row on the Charles on June 8, replied that it was impossible on account of races at New York...
...inning, when a three base hit by Schoenfuss and an error by Jaynes gave the Roxbury team their only run. He was replaced by Winsor, who was equally effective. Jaques gave both pitchers good support and threw well to bases. The infield had but few chances, but did not accept them with the speed and accuracy which will be necessary against a stronger team. Jaynes, who played in centre field yesterday, was very slow in the field and weak...