Word: retractment
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...organized. What cause, then, she has for regret we cannot see. The Advocate is wrong in saying that Harvard has made a mistake in withdrawing, but that having made this mistake she must maintain her position. If we were really in fault it would clearly be our duty to retract regardless of consequences. But, save in the inopportune appointment of the committee to confer with Yale-a matter of comparative unimportance-we have not been in fault. The only reason for our maintaining our withdrawal from the league is because we believe it to have been right. Without sharing...
...Sunday as absurd features not by any means peculiar to Dartmouth, and advocating the formation of an association of students to supplement the power of petition. After a protracted meeting the faculty voted by a majority of one to expel the authors of the articles should they refuse to retract their statements. The minority vote was in favor of immediate expulsion without opportunity to retract. The two men were given a short time to apologize and retract and on their failure to do this to the complete satisfaction of the faculty, they were indefinitely suspended...
...desire to retract, in part, our editorial remarks of yesterday reflecting upon the action of one of the instructors in the Latin department, as we find that they were founded on misinformation and do serious injustice to the instructor whose methods were criticised, which we sincerely regret. In our item which stated that members of Latin 2 answering "Not prepared" would not be again called on during the year, we should have also stated that those giving a sufficient excuse before the recitation would not be subjected to this rule. This throws an entirely new light on the whole matter...
...declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called for charity, though not for cash, and that, at any rate, he had shown up Thackeray to the world; whereupon Mr. F-lds called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building an L to the Concord school; and then he called upon the Sage...
...boats at present in the club boat-house, of which $1,500 was to be paid before July 1, 1877, and the remaining $1,000 before April 1, 1878. However unwise and hasty this agreement may have been, it is now too late to retract it, and in order to insure the payment of the remaining debt, the officers must enforce the rule that nobody shall use any club boats during the ensuing year without a previous payment...