Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton students are certainly in a very disagreeable position. All their charges against their faculty have been unsustained, and the men who furnished the basis of those charges have been obliged to withdraw their statements, made, as they declare, through a mistaken idea of the circumstances. It seems almost impossible to believe that the entire body of Princeton students were so carried away by their imaginations as to formulate such bitter charges with absolutely no groundwork of fact. The whole incident is much to be regretted...
Night gave Hooker an opportunity to concentrate his army on a more compact line meager to Chancellorsville itself. In the morning, Sunday, a second desperate attack was made by the Confederates, which compelled Hooker to abandon his position and withdraw, so as to defend the road in his rear leading to the river. Here, night again brought him relief. From this last position Lee still seemed determined to drive him where his own attention was drawn aside by the movements of Sedgwick in his rear. This general had received orders from his chief to move around and meet...
...students could be set before them in the proper light. Such measures were taken, therefore, as seemed best fitted to fully express the sentiments of the undergraduates in regard to the proposed changes. Upon learning the strong current of opinion against the new rules, the faculty have voted to withdraw from the position they have taken...
...Athletic Association, under these rules, will be forced to withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Association in which it has taken a leading part for several years past, since it is not believed that these rules will be accepted by all the colleges in the association and those who do not accept them will have the right to retain the organization as at present constituted. This will necessitate the surrendering of the valuable championship cup, which has been held by Harvard for several years past, and will diminish or destroy our chance for its final possession. There are a number...
...open to the college. Either it should allow the present system to be stretched to its full limit and permit professionalism to gain complete sway over our sports, or it should secure the co-operation of other colleges and abolish all intercourse with professionals, or finally the college should withdraw completely from inter-collegiate contests. Prof. White expressed himself as being strongly in favor of continuing such contests. President Eliot stated that although some dozen years ago he had expressed himself in favor of such a move at present he did not wish to commit himself in favor...