Word: consented
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Giving consent, speaks words so dear...
...sincerely hope that the members do not think hey are kept out from any personal feeling; it is right that the entries should be secret, and should close in time to print the programmes, if for no other reason, and never again, with the consent of the Executive Committee, will entries be received after the advertised time of closing. It would have been much better for that audience of two thousand people to witness those five events on last Saturday than to have to go about begging men to enter. If we, the largest college in America, are not ready...
...impossible to fix upon an earlier date and at the same time allow our men a fortnight's training on the Thames. It seems a great deal to ask of English crews that they should keep in practice four months after their annual regatta; but Oxford ought to consent to this sacrifice of the summer, for she has owed us a race ever since our memorable defeat in '69. That we have decided to row, if possible, the English Universities, is due on the one hand to the graduates, for without their pecuniary aid we could have done nothing...
...seems, however, that the Cornell men are quite determined to-row nowhere but at Saratoga. The Era of April 12 seems to consider, very naturally, that the race is "off." Once again we urge the Freshmen to meet the consequences of their want of prudence boldly, and consent to row at Saratoga. Of course individuals are to blame for causing a hasty and ill-considered challenge to be sent, but the whole class is responsible for the result. Whatever means they may take to punish their evil counsellors, they cannot honorably escape the consequences of following bad advice...
...cannot let pass the opportunity of joining with the Advocate, in earnestly hoping that Mr. Childs will consent to deliver in Cambridge his lectures on English Ballad Poetry, so that the members of the University and others may hear them. We were almost inclined to be jealous at the good fortune of the people of Baltimore, until we saw that such a feeling would be unreasonable; we remembered that, until last week, no desire to hear Mr. Childs's lectures had been publicly expressed. We do not think that any modesty on our part should keep us from expressing...