Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialities may be thrown aside. As to competition, it may be an evil, but it is a necessary evil. We must accept our athletics with this evil...
...recent inter-collegiate athletic conference have called out a chorus of disapproval from several quarters, and it is evidently more than doubtful whether five colleges can be got to approve them. Harvard and Princeton have adopted them. Brown has refuse. There is no chance that Yale will accept them, and even if Columbia and Wesleyan should, the defection of Yale will make any attempt at union nearly impossible. Whether we call Harvard and Yale universities or only college like the rest, they are so much larges, and their stake in the matter is so much greater, and the competition between...
...duties. Cornell's representative said the faculty would ascertain the feeling of the students before taking action; the students were strongly opposed to them. The young gentlemen from the College of the City of New York said that their college, as far as its students were concerned, would fully accept the action of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association. From the delegates from Lafayette it was ascertained that the faculty there generally consulted with the students in regard to such meters; the students decidedly opposed any such action as the indorsing of the resolutions. The Lehigh University men said that their...
...Potter of Union College will probably accept the position of president of Hobart...
...highly important to finish taking all the negatives of the class by the first of March, to give time for printing both photographs and heliotypes from the plates. Many of the class have not been taken at all, and more having been taken once, have not troubled themselves to accept the negative, or else to make a new appointment. The committee would also suggest that it is quite as important to keep an appointment as to make it. All those, therefore, who have not been photographed, are urgently asked to do so at once...