Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale freshmen voted unanimously to accept the challenge sent by the freshmen of the University of Pennsylvania. The Yale News has a long editorial favorably commenting on the action...
...London, is deserving of careful consideration, especially after the unexpected course of the Harvard navy management has rendered it probable that there will be no race this year with the Harvard freshmen. The challenge is a straight-forward one, fully approved by our navy management and should be accepted without hesitation by the freshman class. We need mention only the chief reason for its acceptance and we feel sure it will suffice. A well-trained freshman crew has become indispensable for developing men for the University boat, a fact which the experience of the past few years establishes beyond...
...letter was received last Friday from the University of Pennsylvania freshmen, challenging the Yale freshmen to a two-mile straightway, eight-oared race at New London. At a meeting of the Yale freshmen Monday night it was voted to accept the challenge. The race will probably be rowed the same day as the Harvard-Yale University race. The Yale freshman feel very bitter against the Harvard freshmen for their refusal to permit the Yale crew to participate in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, and if Yale defeats the Pennsylvania crew, it is proposed to challenge the winner of the Harvard...
...elective pamphlet for 1887-88, is in course of composition, Its issue may be expected somewhere within one or three weeks according as the faculty accept or object to the provis-visional pamphlet to be presented to them at to-day's meeting. In making an arrangement like this for the whole college year, it is very desirable that all who are affected by its provisions should state their wishes or objections before it is too late. Especially now when the tendency of the students selection of studies is such an important factor in the composition or our elective pamphlet...
There were twelve men present in Holden Chapel last night, and by a unanimous vote decided to accept the plan, as proposed, to regulate the expenses of the Foot-Ball Association. The meeting then broke up. Later on, four men presented themselves and waited twenty minutes wondering when the meeting was going to begin. It finally dawned upon them that the meeting was over, so they too, adjourned in quiteness...