Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Albert Harkness, of Brown University, recently appointed to the directorship of the American Classical School at Athens, has declined to accept the position...
...serious loss and one which it will find it hard work to repair. Having received an education at the two leading sets of learning in their respective departments and a practical knowledge of his calling both as an officer and professor in the army, be was well qualified to accept the position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader...
...graduated four years later, the head scholar of his class. This rank entitled him to a position in the Engineer Corps of the army with which he served for seven years, part of the time as assistant professor at the academy. In 1849 he left the army to accept the position of professor of engineering in the then newly established Lawrence Scientific School. His work here was uninterrupted in its usefulness until the breaking out of the Civil war. Then remembering his military education, he once more joined the army, in spite of illness. He was made colonel...
...nevertheless considerable hope that the friends of foot ball within the faculty, aided by efforts of the students, might succeed in giving the latter an opportunity to rid the game of its objectionable features. In this hope, however, we have been defeated and nothing remains but for us to accept the situation with as good a grace as possible...
...only as a matter of courtesy, however, the letter should be acted upon at once. The boat club ought to have a meeting, everyone should go and action be taken. Either the undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems more than probable, they must do the reverse, ask the committee to give way themselves in deference to the express desire of the under-graduates. If the committee cannot see their way clear to yield on this issue...