Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...field of misconception is not narrowed to the results of discipline, but extends over all the methods. The great majority of students have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence...
...should know Christ, accept our duty and receive our privilege from Him. From cold-blooded spectators of life we must become warm sympathizers; we must live for our time...
...cases where the civil courts decide that a clergyman is not guilty of some offence charged by his people, the ecclesiastical court is in no way bound to accept this decision but may turn the accused out, if they consider him guilty. But the civil court insists that in all trials before ecclesiastical bodies the accused shall receive all the rights which he is allowed before a civil court...
...will give me great pleasure to accept the position of Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, from Sept. 1, 1894, if the Board of Overseers shall see fit to consent to the appointment...
...still left. To make provision for both of these possibilities and, at the same time, to consult the wishes of applicants as far as possible, the committee direct that the applicant shall select out of a list of all the orders those which he would be willing to accept as substitutes. The committee will then know, in case the first choice cannot be given, what may be substituted...