Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear Sir.- The members of the Harvard University Boat Club request me to send you the accompanying pitcher, and to express to you the hope that you will accept it in remembrance of the many hours you have spent in assisting them with your personal supervision and invaluable advice; and they desire me to assure you that they sincerely appreciate your efforts...
...boats, or places upon our nines are to be found among the most regular attendants at the required exercises of the college, while it is a notorious fact that the most systematic loafers in college are to be found among the non-athletic men. Can we, then, accept this dictum of President Robinson's as holding true of American students in general? Obviously not; nor can we be made to believe that the students of Brown, in particular, are so constituted as to be incapable of at the same time engaging in sport and study, with profit to themselves...
...faculty. Last Saturday, ten cadets of the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Mass., sent word to the faculty that, unless they were allowed to visit the theatre, the skating rink, and a certain billiard room on their afternoons out, they would leave the academy. As the faculty did not accept this ultimatum, the ten carried out their threat and abandoned the institution. The spirited way in which these young gentlemen resented the tyranny of their superiors must meet with the deepest approval. What is a paltry education worth, after all, compared with the inestimable privileges of frequenting the skating rink...
...what he can for the Co-operative Society. While it is undoubtedly a duty for every member to aid this society as far as possible, the obligation which rests upon non-members is certainly a much greater one. These men are the persons who should now step forward and accept the opportunity offered by the society for membership at reduced rates. Only $1.50 for the rest of the year. It is true, perhaps, that just at the present time, the usefulness of the society is not very great, not as great as it has been, not as great...
Prof. C. C. Everett and Prof. E. C. Peabody, of the committee on the library, have published a statement, in the hope that some friend of the school may come to its aid, so that it can accept this gift. Some of the volumes are of general interest, and some are very curious and rare. the donation is received with gratitude, but also with embarrassment, for at present there is no accommodation for so large a collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest...