Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that Stagg refused a salary of $4,000, offered by the New York Athletic Association, in order to accept the general secretaryship of the Y. M. C. A. of Yale College...
President Smith of Trinity College, newly elected bishop of Ohio, has not yet decided to accept this dignity, although it is expected that he will do so. The faculty and students of Trinity have submitted petitions asking him to remain at the head of the college...
...definitely settled that there will be no Yale-Harvard foot-ball game this season. Yale has refused to accept any proposition made by our management in regard to the regular championship game, insisting that Harvard should play on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day, even though she knew that that was impossible through no fault of our own. She has therefore forced us to forfeit the championship game. In doing this she has willfully overlooked the assurance given by Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill of last year's team...
...originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then and there only. We hope you will see the justice of this demand, and that Yale's honor will not permit her to do otherwise than accept. We await an early reply. We remain very respectfully yours...
...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...