Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell and the Fellows of the College have been invited to ride in the parade which will start at the Larz Anderson Bridge in the afternoon, and it is probable that they will accept the invitation and attend in a body. The majority of the men who are in charge of the day's program and who will speak at Concord are University graduates. Allen French '94 is the head of the committee in charge and among the prominent speakers are B. L. Young '07 and Robert Frost '99, noted poet...
...most patriotic course open to Zaghlul is a complete retirement from politics. After Zaghlul's almost undisguised republicanism, King Faud cannot possibly accept a Zaghlulist Cabinet, which is also highly embarrassing to the British Government, while we know too well the effect in the country generally...
With one exception, the Van Sweringens are having their own way with their projected Nickel Plate merger (TIME, July 7, Aug. 11, Aug. 18). Erie shareholders have voted to accept their terms for leasing the road to the new consolidation, thus marking the real end of the historic Erie as an independent road. Pere Marquette shareholders. according to report, are about to follow suit...
With the Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders, however, the situation is very different. The Van Sweringens bought the majority of C. & O. stock for the Nickel Plate rather easily. But, when it came to persuading minority C. & O. stockholders to accept the leasing terms which they proffered, vigorous protest at once developed...
Finally it was voted by the Committee "to accept with thanks" the offer of Bernon S. Prentice '05 to donate a cup, for matches to be played between the combined Harvard and Yale tennis teams and the Oxford and Cambridge teams. The cup was offered by Mr. Prentice on condition that it should be contested alternately in the United States and in England, though not necessarily annually. The Committee agreed to this condition in accepting the offer...