Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Said the young gentleman: "This contest is perpetually renewed. Annually General Butler is to be a candidate. He is beaten today. He will come again, and by-and-by, for mere weariness, the State will accept him. Some dozen years hence, when he has worried everybody to death, he will be found to have a majority...
...rule at Harvard, regarding professional trainers, will dispense with the services of Mr. James Robinson, who has had charge of the Athletic Association of that college for several years past. Mr. Robinson proposes making a short visit to friends in England, and upon his return will probably accept a call from Yale. - [Boston Herald...
...money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems to us is gradually spreading in our colleges. It certainly is beginning to be held at Harvard, and Yale no doubt will be forced to accept it sooner or later...
Professor Perry of Williams College is willing to accept a nomination for State Senator from the Northern Berkshire District of Massachusetts...
Charles John Bell, A. B., Harvard, recently appointed a Fellow in Johns Hopkins University, has resigned in order to accept the chair of Chemistry in the Pennsylvania State College...