Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many at best, and when so few of those entered appeared at the scratch, the feeling of just dissatisfaction among the spectators was very evident. It is a pity that the men should feel so little interested in the events in which they have entered that they so willingly relinquish their chances of winning...
...pass from allegiance to government to that of party. We must have party, but in joining it we must let our conscience ask how much party we are to have, and have much conscience left if we relinquish everything towards forwarding the actions of that party. We must have our ideals towards which all our struggles should be directed; but there is no likelibood of our being able to have any hope of reaching our own place unless there is given to us for our aid, three great factors, liberty, righteousness and courage. No people or class ever existed which...
...reformers who decline to relinquish the degree of A. B., with all that it implies, to the conservatives, may contend that it has long meant nothing more than graduation from a higher institution of learning. It threw some light on the probable courses of study of the recipient, but none at all on the quality of his instruction or the height of culture and discipline attained. For all practical purposes it was necessary to affix the name of the college or "university" conferring the degree. This is still and will always be necessery, and the conservatives have a complete remedy...
...after the darkness has shut down on the city, the freshmen remain seated on their cherished fence, discoursing sweet music, till the hour arrives for going to the freshman banquet. Such is the reward they earn for defeating a Harvard team; may the next freshman class be forced to relinquish their fence and their laurels to Harvard...
...first championship game with Princeton here in Cambridge. Princeton secured the lacrosse championship last year, and, as its team is almost the same as then, hopes to retain it. But if our men continue to improve as much as they have the past few weeks, she may have to relinquish the coveted prize...