Word: consent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remarkable fact that sufferings and hardships do not tire us of life; they rather urge us on and we find joy in our triumph over them. When you relate to one contemplating suicide the woes which others have suffered, you base his consent to try again on manliness and pride, and he is easily moved to begin again. When we accept the pleasures of a life which is based on the sacrifice of the lower animals it involves the point of honor and demands of us unselfishness. Life, then, is worth living no matter what it brings, and probably...
HANOVER, N. H., April 23. - Dartmouth College students have backed down from the square stand they took last fall with regard to playing medical students on their athletic teams and have voted to ask Williams and Amherst to stay in the leagues with them and have consented to bar medical students off all teams if they will consent to this arrangement. Dartmouth has also sent delegates to Amherst today and Williams tomorrow, who will make this proposition: To form three triangular leagues in baseball, football and track athletics; to abide by the four year limit and one year residence rule...
...England, although carried at that association's meeting by fifteen votes to three, has received the disapproval of such institutions as Yale, Columbia and Princeton, while Harvard would have no voice in the matter. All things considered it is most improbable that Oxford and Cambridge will give their consent to the match, the suggested month for which is July...
...Women Suffrage is equitable; accords with the principles of republican government. - (a) The best government comes from the consent of the governed. - (2) Women are citizens of the U. S. in all but right to vote: U. S. Rev. States. SS 1992-1994. - (b) "Taxation without representation is tyranny." - (1) Women own property as well as men. - (c) The ballot is the only efficient protection to a person's interests. - (1) Women not represented by men: Geo. Wm. Curtis, 8-13; Sumner, Speech March March...
...time being all contests between the students of the two institutions. A number of Princeton men have been in Philadelphia this week, and from this source it was learned that the members of the last season's football team have been united in petitioning the Faculty to consent to a game with Pennsylvania next fall. This action was taken at the instance of Capt. Lea, who is anxious to have an opportunity of offsetting the defeat of Princeton by Pennsylvania at Trenton last fall...