Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seventh volume is lamentably weak in verse. The February number does not contain a line of poetry. While we regret the absence of verse, we accept it as evidence that the Monthly intends to keep its standard high and to reject contributions which are not worthy of publication...
Owing to the general lack of interest in bicycling at New Haven, the Yale Bicycle Club feel unable to accept the generous challenge of the Harvard Bicycle Club...
...feasibility. On the other hand, our freshmen in refusing a three-cornered race, have followed the advice of competent oarsmen well acquainted with the New London course. When once the Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania race has been rowed and has proved perfectly fair, it will be time enough to accept it as a precedent...
...race with Yale would undoubtedly bring out many new riders to train on the track for the spring games. This would greatly increase Harvard's chance of winning the twomile race at Mott Haven. On the whole the idea is a good one, and we hope Yale will accept the challenge. The Bicycle Club is now one of the most flourishing of its kind in the university. Its management certainly deserves credit for the energy displayed in endeavoring to carry out so important an innovation...
...following committee was appointed to make arrangements for the race: Greenleaf, '92; Brown, '91, Davis, '91. The club has left everything to Yale, in the hope of inducing them to accept the challenge...