Word: acceptation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Weld thought that by withdrawing we should be in an independent position in which we could accept or decline any challenge we received...
...standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character and ability have been induced to accept an office which had been mocked by the nomination of unworthy candidates. Nevertheless, no permanent dignity has been added to the office, for the good sense of the College has been too great to accept the empty language of a complimentary resolution in place of the pure gold of the feeling that...
...University in three, Harvard in two, Tufts in one, while Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Union, Cornell, and Bowdoin were in nothing pre-eminent. We would ask the Courant whether Yale's 252 Freshmen are in the Academic Department alone, or include those in the Scientific School? In the former case, "we accept their apology...
After some proficiency had been acquired in these pursuits by our students they could challenge other colleges, and then perhaps we might have the good-fortune to meet with the students of the University of Vermont, who, being accomplished in the science of agriculture, would undoubtedly accept an invitation to such contests, provided that there were no gamblers or blacklegs to mar the rural simplicity of the occasion. What a proud day it would be for old Harvard to witness her sons manfully endeavoring either to outplough and outhoe their competitors, or to dig ditches of given lengths against time...
...often been stated that there is hardly an eminent journalist living who has ever made a professional use of phonography. This fact, alone, should have great influence over those who seek to make a profession of phonography. There are at present many undergraduates studying phonography who, perhaps, will not accept these statements. Those will, I believe, who, like myself have diligently acquired a knowledge of the art, and have come to a knowledge of its many mischievous as well as its few desirable results...