Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John Hall has been selected as acting chancellor of the University of the city of New York, and it is believed that he will soon accept the position of permanent chancellor...
...HAMLIN, Secretary of Pierian.The Pierian, accompanied by as many members of the Glee Club as possible, has received an invitation to play in Brookline within two weeks. It is not yet decided whether to accept...
...thought Senator Edmunds will accept the position in the Supreme Court offered him by President Arthur. In that case, ex-Gov. Smith will probably be elected senator in his place...
...reason for his resignation as he repeatedly gave it in public, was, that his salary was too small here, and that he was going where he could get ten thousand per year, - and yet, he has accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College - with no salary the first year, and agreeing to accept what is offered him after that; surely a strange proceeding in a money point of view. Various rumors were afloat at the time of his resignation. Some said that he had been asked to resign by the trustees, while the more general and well authenticated belief...
...they find themselves prepared for it, whether it be at the end of two, three, four or six years. Harvard should also be relieved from the entire burden and trouble of entrance examinations; a certificate of graduation from such preparatory schools as maintain the university standard, to be accepted as the qualification of the student for college - as the certificate from the gymnasium secures the student's entrance into the university in Germany. Those students, prepared by private tutors, would then have to pass the final examination of some high school or academy. Harvard, today, would be relieved of much...