Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communication was entirely conrteous in its tone and it seemed to us that, in justice to the writer and the college at large, as well as to the management itself, it required an explanation of the facts as it stated them. As it is the men in college must accept the facts as they were stated, and give them their own interpretation, which is not likely to be a charitable...
...trustees of Columbia College, at a recent meeting, accepted the resignation of President F. A. P. Barnard and appointed a committee to consider nominations to fill the vacancy thus created. Professor Henry Drisler was made Acting President. A letter was received from Professor J. M. Sloan of Princeton, declining to accept the Latin professorship at Columbia...
Prof. Drisler is now acting president of Columbia College. Prof. Sloane of Princeton has declined to accept the Chair of Latin at Columbia...
Minister Phelps has written to the Yale Kent Club saying that he can not accept their invitation to lecture...
Professor G. S. Hall, of Johns Hopkins University, has been offered and will probably accept the presidency of Clark University, the new college at Worcester, Mass...