Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hearts of Yale men, despite the most strenuous opposition, a desire to assume, at least, the semblance of respectability and even courtesy, but we have been toying with a delusion and a snare. The item in question stated that Mr. Robinson had received overtures from Yale men to accept the position of gymnasium trainer at the institution that is gaining such an enviable reputation for itself through the Dennis Kearney tone of its journalistic representatives. We published the announcement on good authority, and still persist that Mr. Robinson was approached and was offered liberal inducements to resign his position here...
...dispatch to the Times from Constantinople says: There is reason to believe that the Porte will accept a conference if assurance is given that its deliberations will be strictly confined to the Egyptian question...
...this action of the senior class has already appeared in the excellence of the games played this year by the freshmen, compared with the playing of the class nines of former years. We hope that the freshmen will appreciate the necessity of the action of '82, and will accept the result with good-natured resignation...
...forbidden to play professional teams on the home grounds. By this regulation the men are really compelled to go to New York in order to find a good team with which to obtain practice. If the authorities will repeal this decree professional clubs can be invited, and will gladly accept, to play the 'Varsity in Cambridge, and in this way the best interests of all will be subserved; for while there may be well founded objections to playing professional teams, their conduct has always been found as gentlemanly and respectable as that of amateurs...
...think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...