Word: cession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been the almost universal hope and the general belief in Cambridge that the two universities would not allow a trivial matter to keep their athletic teams apart long. The good, which some believed a cession of athletics would accomplish, has been done, if it will be done at all, and it is time for a new and healthier rivalry to begin. It is to be hoped that those who have in charge the proposals for the renewal of athletics will not let any trivial technical points of pride or diplomacy keep the two universities apart...
...first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...