Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There seems little doubt that the New London Board of Trade will accept the agreement offered by the Yale and Harvard Boat Clubs. These organizations are in a position to dictate their own terms; and they have used their power to bring to the colleges some of the benefits by which, in past years, the New London people have so exclusively profited. The annual Harvard-Yale race has been a source of revenue to everybody except the colleges, which have always been the losers. It is only just that now the colleges should be freed from a part...
...motion was then introduced by Mr. Bradford of Princeton that the association accept Carey's alleged record of 9 4-5 sec. for the hundred yards. An animated discussion followed in which J. P. Lee showed that since there were no official timers there the record could not be accepted without breaking the Association's rules. After some testimony from Burr McIntosh of the I. A. A. A. A. to the inefficiency of the men who timed Carey when he claimed to have made his fast time, the motion was voted upon and lost...
...Harper's connection with the report was simply as a member of the committee on organization. It will probably be next May before he gives a definite answer as to whether he will accept the office of president, tendered him by the trustees. If he accepts it his departure will leave vacant the senior professorship of Bible studies at Yale...
...mind, standing half way between the mind theory on the one hand, with which it shares the notion of the unity of the thinker, even although this thinker is but momentary, and the hypothesis of the atomic idea, on the other hand, with which it shares the tendency to accept and to describe in relatively simple terms the empirical facts of the passing consciousness...
...will please write as soon as possible, letting me know whether you accept or decline this challenge. Hoping to hear favorably from you at an early date, I am, yours truly...