Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That we, the students in mass-meeting assembled, do accept this trust in full appreciation of its meaning, and devote to use our influence to suppress disturbances of all kinds in the college yard...
...freshman class meeting on Tuesday evening, it was unanimously voted to accept Yale's proposal to row with the Columbia and Harvard freshmen, provided Columbia would agree. The arrangements were left to the managers of the crew. This is practically the same decision which was arrived at some time ago by the management, so it only remains to get Columbia's consent. When the proposal made by Yale was forwarded by the managers of the Harvard crew to Columbia, she refused to give any decision in the matter until she heard the opinion of our freshman class. This opinion...
...Columbia Spectator thinks that it would be a good thing for the Harvard freshmen to accept the challenge of the Yale '89 crew to an eight-oared boat race. Comment is unnecessary...
Candidates for the Yale Freshman crew will not remain in New Haven during the Easter recess unless the Harvard freshmen accept their challenge...
...proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...