Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel that whatever poor taste it may have shown has now been more than surpassed by the News' display of ill-nature. However much Princeton men may be guilty of extravagant enthusiasm, the men of Yale are appearing to far greater disadvantage in showing their unwillingness to accept defeat gracefully...
...anticipated pleasure of meeting the Advocate and the Lampoon on the foot-ball field must be foregone. Our challenge has not been accepted. We did not expect that the staid elderly matron - the Advocate - would show the white feather. Black accords with your age and sombre disposition, respected maid of Harvard. Do not shock our taste by wearing white. As your formal edict has gone forth, declining the contest, please accept our hopes that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner, and that many more are in store for you. We can understand why Lampy. displayed his discretion, rather than his valor...
...class only, but cordially ask for communications from any undergraduate. One or two positions on the paper are yet vacant, and they are to be filled by general competition. But not only do we ask candidates for the paper to contribute to it, but we solicit, and will accept with pleasure, any suitable communication bearing upon matters of general interest to the college. Our former calls for contributions have been very widely answered, and it is with the hope that they will receive a still more extended answer that we repeat our request...
...faculty a number of permanent and temporary changes have been made. Prof. James F. Colby, of the Law School, has resigned his office to accept a class of political enconomy at Dartmouth. His place is filled by Prof. Theodore D. Woolsey, who resigned two years ago, and has now returned to the law school's corps of instructors. Prof. E. J. Phelps's appointment as Minister to England has left a vacancy which will probably be filled by Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, who will instruct the seniors in constitutional and international law. Mr. Arthur E. Hadley continues his lectures...
...over the country? People think it is strange - it is surprising - no doubt it is, but does any of them think that its strangeness bears, maybe, some witness to its unlikelihood, that the astonishment which they feel at reading it is perhaps a proof of its exaggeration? No. They accept it as true, and hold up their hands in pious horror at the doings of these college men, perhaps even while they are reading some other article in the same paper and wondering whether there really can be any truth in that. College life is not so black...