Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert M. LaFollette, resting in Washington in preparation for a dervishlike close to his campaign, was prompted to excoriate the California courts, when the Supreme Court of that state in a 4-3 decision refused for legal reasons to accept the names of the 13 LaFollette electors to be placed on the ballot in the Independent column. Said...
...Boston, Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin, for 13 years head of Boston University, announced his departure from Boston "not later than Dec. 1" to accept the presidency of De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.), whence he was graduated...
After long years of debate, Canada's Parliament passed a bill, last spring, officially uniting the Dominion Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists. But each and every church in each of the denominations may decide for itself whether or not to accept the union. It now appears that the number of Congregational and Methodist churches which will vote to remain outside the union will be insufficient to warrant the perpetuation of those two denominations in Canada. But of Presbyterians there are irreconcilables aplenty. Nearly a third of the Presbyterian churches will probably hold aloof from the union...
...active season of the Council will begin today with a meeting in Weld 43 at 5.30 o'clock when plans for some event to take the place of the Cambridge debate will be discussed. At this time the Council will also consider whether or not it will accept an invitation to join the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League. A vacancy has been created by the resignation of Cornell, probably occasioned by geographical distance from the other members. The other members of the league are Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale...
When only the larger nations are left armed, public opinion will either force them to join their smaller brethren in a policy of disarmament, or will make them accept responsibility for future trouble. And the nation which will brave the scorn and contempt of a peacefully inclined world will indeed be an all powerful...