Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Gentlemen, - Pray accept my best thanks for the package of Vanity Fair Tobacco which I found here yesterday. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will be a great source of enjoyment to me on my Western trip...
...race with Columbia desirable, - improvement of our chances with Yale and more fun for the crew. Harvard withdrew from the Association, and entered a series of races with Yale; since then she has given Cornell an opportunity to challenge her, which Cornell failed to improve, and she has accepted a challenge from Columbia. More than this can hardly be expected of her; and now she ought not to so place herself that hereafter any undesirable race can be forced upon her. She ought not to involve herself in a series of races from which she cannot withdraw at once...
...Crew last week decided to accept the challenge from Columbia, provided the race be rowed on the 26th of this month; and to this Columbia has agreed. Accordingly, the race will be rowed at Springfield, three days before the race with Yale. We said, in our ast issue that we hoped it would be possible to accept this challenge; and we are heartily glad that it has been done. Columbia, much disappointed at Cornell's backing-out, is anxious for a race, and seems willing to place herself at some disadvantage in order to get one. Her situation this year...
...second by Tyng's good throw. Smith is given a life by Ernst's wild throw to Wright, who, by a superb stop, prevents a run. Downer out on a fly to Holmes. The opportunity for redemption is again offered our Nine, but they again refuse to accept it, and gracefully retire in one, two, three order. The ninth inning results in Carter striking out, Brown batting to second, Wheaton getting a base hit, and Morgan retiring on a good catch by Dow. Wright is evidently in a hurry, and goes out quickly at first. Dow then hits a hard...
...example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population and capital, on rents, profits, and wages. With stoical indifference we accept the inevitable, but not the ??? of the proctor's boots...