Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school, who spoke on the Dawes bill. This bill gives the Indian the right to hold land and also the right of citizenship. The president is authorized to have the reservation surveyed and a part allotted to each member of the tribe. The Indian may be compelled to accept the land and cannot part with it for twenty-five years. The remaining land is bought by the government and sold to out-siders and money is placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other important section of the bill is the conferring...
...Clark and Senator Hoar of the trustees of the Clark University in this city. Two months ago, after considerable correspondence, the Clark University people made an offer to the committee representing Mr. Fay, which offer has been communicated to Mr. Fay with the committee's recommendation that he accept it. Just what this offer is cannot be ascertained. It is known, however, that it includes the gift of a suitable tract of land in the vicinity of Clark University...
...said that the freshmen know so little about the study of rhetoric that it was only through the kindness of their instructor who decided not to accept the last examination as a test that they were saved from everlasting disgrace. Another examination in English A will take place to-morrow...
...constitution and playing rules were discussed, and a number of changes were proposed, but no very radical ones were carried. It was, however, voted that when a referee is chosen who finds that he cannot serve he shall provide a substitute to do away with possibility of having to accept one who is prejudiced in favor of either contestant. A motion to have two referees was lost...
...challenge of Harvard to Yale to meet her in a match at cricket would have more chance of acceptance were not this sport one of the few in which the New Haven institution as yet makes no pretensions to expertness. The great cricketing college is the University of Pennsylvania, which is very easily first in it. The laurels of base-ball, foot-ball, boating, tennis, or field and track athletics may pass from one institution to another during successive years, but no American college meets Pennsylvania on the wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard...