Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighty-eight board resigns the care and responsibility of the arrangement of the CRIMSON into the hands of eighty-nine. It has been usual policy for the senior board to wait until late in the spring before tendering their resignations. It has however seemed to the board a more satisfactory and fitting arrangement for the senior editors to resign at the beginning of the new term and of a new volume of the CRIMSON since they have other work to do in this the last lap of college course...
...much the conviction that even in such clubs men would cheat, but the feeling that if any one should cheat, he would have the club at his mercy. The other members would then have to expel him unanimously; or, failing of unanimity, some would have to resign and so break up the club rather than remain associated with him; and this sort of aggressive righteousness was to much to expect from men bred in our atmosphere. A challenge to that kind of righteousness was, it seemed. one which we could hardly count on men's accepting...
Last Tuesday evening Prof. Cohn gave an excellent lecture in Sever 11, in which he treated in detail the causes which forced President Grevy to resign. President Grevy is a man who has rendered great service to the French nation, and is consequently highly respected. His resignation was called for only as a measure of last resort to preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment...
...member of the navy was unfortunate enough to receive an exhibition part he was honor-bound to resign and make room for a luckier class-mate. "This resignation," says a chronicler of those days, "took place immediately after the parts were read to the class. The doorway of the middle entry of Holworthy was the place usually chosen for the affecting scene. The performance was carried on in the mock-oratorical style, a person concealed under a sheet being placed behind the speaker to make the gestures for him. The names of the members who, having received parts for commencement...
...professors. Last year was unavoidably an off-year with the society, and few new names were added to the constitution. Membership means total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, as long as one is connected with the university; but members are at liberty to resign at any time. There is no fee to join, and contributions to carry on the work are generally voluntary. An earnest invitation is extended to all members of the university to connect themselves with the League...