Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Leavitt, Gr., has left college to accept a position as teacher in New York state...
...eight Yale's refusal to row is, however, one of the most unsportsmanlike acts ever known in the world of intercollegiate athletics Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating. By all laws, written and unwritten, the champion of any branch of athletics is always bound to accept any challenges to that title, and a failure to do so entails loss of championship honors...
...failure to accept Cornell's challenge does not confess or acknowledge the superiority of Cornell's crew, and has nothing to do with that question. For their action in this matter Harvard and Yale have reasons which seem to them sufficient, and neither their acceptance nor their refusal to accept the challenge would or could have any bearing on the ability of Cornell's oarsmen. If Swarthmore college, which never rowed a race, should challenge Yale and be refused, would that refusal be a written confession of the superiority of the Swarthmore eight...
...rumored last spring that another school of theology, following the lead of the Episcopal school, would accept the general invitation of Harvard and locate in Cambridge. The report proved true. The estate of President Sparks on Quincy street opposite Memorial hall, had already been bought, and necessary alterations were soon under...
There is a small mutiny in the Yale Scientific school. Professor Honey ordered one of his classes to buy their instruments of a local dealer. They had a chance to get them cheaper elsewhere and did so. The professor refused to accept work done with any other instruments than those obtained at the place he ordered. The students refereed the matter to Professor Brush, the head of the department, who said the fellows could get their instruments where they wished. The trouble still continues in the class and for the last few days there have been no recitations. The fellows...