Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in an athletic competition in this country next autumn, has been referred to the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. We appreciate highly the courtesy of your invitation, and it is with much regret that we feel obliged to forego the pleasure of the proposed competition...
...have a compass of not exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers a characteristic coloring by means as simple as they...
...were this year particularly so. It is difficult to play a game away from home and before a large number of spectators among whom few are favorable to Harvard, and the inexperience of the nine made the difficulty still larger. Besides this, circumstances had made it advisable to forego a number of the games usually played before Princeton is met, and it is generally conceded that the nine has not yet developed the form of which it is capable. Taking all things into consideration, the nine has done well. When the prospects at the beginning of the year are remembered...
...Irving concluded: "I ask you to weigh well the advantages which may present themselves to you before you try to part with, to minimize, or to forego in any way your own individuality. Study it without being egotistic, and understanding the weak places, shun their temptations and try to protect yourself by added strength. Knowing yourself, you may learn to know others; and so in process of time you will both consciously and unconsciously learn those abiding principles of human nature and of human character which add to the knowledge and the progress of the world...
...does not every college man who looks ahead to wife and children realize that it is possible for men to be willing, - yes, eager to forego for themselves in order that others may enjoy...