Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the spring is fairly here,- or ought to be, if we accept the calendar,- our thoughts naturally turn to the nine and their prospects for the season which is just opening. Of all our athletic associations, and we say this with no disparagement to the crew, the Mott Haven team, or the lacrosse and tennis men, the nine seems to have as good, if not a better, chance of winning for Harvard that rarity of rarities, a championship, than any other of our athletic organizations. So many of the members of last year's team remain in college that...
...announced in our news columns this morning, that President Eliot has decided that he will be unable to accept the invitation extended to him by the Union. We think that we but echo the general opinion of the students, when we say that this decision is a cause for sincere regret...
...through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...
...acknowledging the receipt through your hands yesterday, of the beautiful pitcher from the members of the Harvard University Boat Club, I beg to say that I am deeply sensible of their kindness in asking me to accept at this time such a token of the generous feelings which you express in your letter...
Conscious that the singular consideration shown me during an association of ten years with the Boat Club, makes me more than obliged both to the club, and to its members, I accept this token, undeserved though it may be, as typical of the kindness of those who gave...