Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...join one, you will attend a meeting or two, find it stupid, and afterwards stay away. The treasurer will send you a bill or two, which you will forget to pay. Your name will be posted, but nobody will read it. And in the end you will resign, having gained no advantage except a certificate of membership. The truth is that French clubs and German clubs and chess clubs have no real reason for existence, and their life is consequently very artificial. A respectable literary society is sometimes worth joining. Other serious organizations I should advise you to avoid...
...seems that the Wesleyan young lady was not chosen class-day poet, but poet for the class supper. The whole affair was a joke, and as soon as the young lady found out the character of the supper, which is like class suppers in general, she was glad to resign. There was no ill feeling on either side...
...growing infirmities of Dr. Walker's health obliged him to resign the presidency in 1860, and the last fourteen years of his life were spent in most beautiful and honored retirement in our immediate neighborhood. He was re-elected to the Board of Overseers in 1864, and was a member of it at the time of his death. But Dr. Walker is remembered by his pupils and friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached...
...night watchman, Mr. Cheney, is to resign at the end of the present month the office he has so long and creditably filled, and the College will employ no nocturnal guardian in future...
...pleasant little row all by herself. The Yale papers contain very copious accounts of the trouble. It appears that Captain Cook and Mr. Dunning, President of the Yale Navy, do not agree upon all points in boating matters, and, in consequence, either one or the other will have to resign. There is some dissatisfaction among the students at the proposed method of conducting certain affairs, and, as a result, "we see Mr. Cook's opinion disregarded and his candidate defeated"; thereupon, he "resigns his captaincy with feelings of regret...