Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...executive committee deem it wise it may reject any entry...
...class are recognized socially. Here then the question of facility enters, and as Class Day elections approach, the societies submit to us men, in their opinion, best fitted for the various places. The class may accept this list by the vote of its majority, or it may reject it, and "Graduates" reference to "intimidation" is as fictitious as it is positively foolish. To recapitulate, then, the strongest argument for the present system is that the one proposed offers no improvement. Ninety-seven would gladly welcome a change for the better, but up to and including "Graduate's" article, none...
...league reserves the right to the first publication of the prize essays, and to reject all essays if none are found worthy of the award of the prizes...
...Monroe Doctrine forbids us to acquiesce in any territorial aggrandizement by a European power on American soil at the expense of an American state. If people wish to reject the Monroe Doctrine in its entirety, their attitde, though discreditable to their farsighted patriotism, is illogical; but let no one pretend that the present Venezuelan case does not come within the strictest view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence...
Life is not a gift, for a gift is something which we can either accept or reject as we please. We must accept life because it is imposed upon us by a will higher than our own. We should thank God, not for life, but for its chances...