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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...customary challenge from Yale for a series of games to be played during the coming summer has been received. At a meeting of the Harvard Nine, held subsequent to its reception, it was decided to accept the challenge, in so far as to acknowledge our desire to meet the Yale Nine in a series of games; but the fixing of the days on which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...could not have given his support if he had wished; for it would have involved him in the inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and at the same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...meeting of the Executive Committee some four weeks ago, the Secretary was instructed to write to Yale, Brown, Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin, asking them if they would accept a challenge should one be offered. Up to present writing Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Brown have signified their willingness to meet us, while no answers have been received from the others. As to how, when, and where to play these Colleges, should they be challenged, nothing, of course can be decided as yet; but there are two plans talked of, the latter of which is considered by far preferable, if practicable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN NINE. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...Accept our homage; please reign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COLLEGE MAKES A MAN OR MARS HIM." | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

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