Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REMARK is frequently heard to the effect that college graduates do not stand on an equality with other young men of their own age when they enter active life. An opinion so sweeping should carry with it little weight, but there are many who accept a conclusion of this kind without taking the trouble to analyze it. As we all know, there are not two men alike, and when a large body of persons are described as being similar in any respect it is well to investigate the foundations on which the assertion is based before we accept it finally...
...England, says: "It is to be regretted if the refusal of Cambridge to row should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth is, that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match, if made, will entail, in justice to the English club, painstaking...
...accept your proffer...
...wish to be considered candidates for honors. They are obliged to take so many hours of electives in one particular branch that they must choose between giving up the study of many other things and renouncing their ambition. The only remedy for this, that we see, is to accept proficiency in final examinations as an equivalent for so many hours in the tabular view. We cannot see why such a substitution would not be perfectly fair. If one man has sufficient ability to learn as much Greek in one elective as another man does in two, why should...
...intended to mean that our crew, or any part of it, is to remain in training until the 15th August, it is safe to say that some mistake has been made. The Journal seems to think that the English Universities ought to do their utmost to accept the invitations they have received. It is quite confident, too, of the result of a race with American crews, and says...