Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reviewer continues; - "It is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own." But do they? Does the writer insinuate that an English House of Commons is better than an American House of Representatives? If he does, is he the "patriotic" student he claims...
...best conducted under the rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own. If the CRIMSON teaches - and it sometimes seems to teach - that we are to follow what is American because it is American, it certainly opposes the spirit of this most American University...
...that the voices of the Advocate and Lampoon have been heard accepting, on paper, most gracefully their rightful status in athletics, we feel called upon to close the contest, again on paper, which we have so successfully inaugurated and carried out. The CRIMSON eleven, like its great compeers, the CRIMSON nine and crew, is officially awarded by the action of the Lampoon and Advocate the inter-press championship in foot-ball. The eleven stands by this declaration suns peur et sans reproche. It is yet a matter of doubt whether there will be another quest of the Holy Grail...
...kindly consented to give a four o'clock lecture on the subject of descriptive and narrative writing, to which were invited all members of the classes of '87 and '88. Of the five hundred men to whom this invitation was extended, barely thirty thought it worth their while to accept. If our instructors can look upon such an exhibition as this as an evidence that their pupils have arrived at the perfection of style demanded in English writing, and therefore require no further instruction, they have great reason to feel elated; but, if they look upon it in another...
President Smith, of Trinity College has declined to accept the tender of the bishopric of Easton, Md. The interests of the college have flourished under his management and it would have been a serious loss to Trinity had he consented to sever his connection with that institution. - Yale News...