Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR:- It was voted to accept your challenge to a road-race and a committee of three, consisting of president Charles Hayden, vice-president, A. L. Williston and captain E. S. Hutchins have been appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and if you will kindly select a time and place of meeting and notify me of it, they will be present...
...Anglican bishops have recently proposed a union with the other evangelical churches, but they make the acception of episcopacy a condition of fellowship. Although many are willing to accept episcopacy as a means of diminshing sectarianism, yet it is too much to admit that it is an essential of Christianity...
...time nothing but admission tickets could be procured. The position in which M. Coquefin will be placed of lecturing before such a large body of American students will be a novel one, the more so because this opportunity will probably be the only one he can find time to accept during his tour in this country. That he may never regret his experience in talking to us, the welcome accorded him should be warm and sympathetic. That M Coquelin has won the sincerest thanks of all the members of the university, goes without saying, and he may always look back...
...Trinity for the purpose of forming a tennis association which should be open to all American colleges. At this meeting but four colleges were represented. An invitation was extended to Harvard and Williams, but the latter, on account of the death of representive players in college, was unable to accept. In the fall of the same year, a tournament, which was to be the first of a series of annual contests, was held at Hartford. The winners were: In singles. H. A. Taylor, 86, Harvard; second, L. Thorne, '85, Yale; in doubles, Taylor and Presbey, Harvard, with Thorne and Knapp...
...senior class meeting which took place last night in Upper Massachusetts was called to order by President Trafford. The secretary's report was read and accepted. The report of Mr. Codman, the manager of the '89 crew, followed, showing a creditable reduction in the class debt, notwithstanding the purchase of a new shell. The next business was the election of officers. Mr. Trafford was re-elected president by acclamation. Mr. Storrow was unanimously elected vice-president in place of Mr. Balch, who has left college. Mr. Parker was also re-elected secretary-treasurer by acclamation. Mr. Perkins was elected captain...