Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...required work is to be thrown aside (for an attempt to do so is making) without a particle of sound reason for it. When Latin and Greek and Mathematics are ready to quit their claims to the position of required studies, then will it be time for English to withdraw, and not till then; then will it be right, and not till then. The time, indeed, has come for a decisive policy. Half-way measures have been tried and have failed. Therefore the writer thinks that those who have the best interests of our College at heart, who see clearly...
CARL SCHURZ advises Mr. Conkling to withdraw from the contest for senator...
...judges' decision, an insult we have never before seen at Harvard, and hope never to see repeated. The two-hand vault followed, and brought out seven men; the bar was started at 5 feet 2 in. T. C. Batchelder, '83, and A. C. Denniston, '83, were the first to withdraw, at 6 ft. 3 in; C. M. Field, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84, fell out at 6 ft. 6 in.; C. H. W. Foster, '81, at 6 ft. 7 in.; and H. R. Woodward, '84, at 6 ft. 8 in., which height was cleared by G. B. Morison...
Doctor M-ner immediately arose, and, after quoting the beautiful lines, "Peter Parley pickt a peck of pickled peppers," &c., said that if Algernon were given to the use of spirituous drinks he (M-ner) should withdraw from the Club. As no one made any objections to this, the reverend doctor did not withdraw...
...oarswomen withdraw, and Miss CARBUNCLE continues...