Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fair to lose its place on the programme, and the man who urges its abolishment is the stanchest friend of the Association, Dr. McCosh. In its place he would have a discussion of "live topics," - a change so startling as to cause Hamilton, that well-spring of eloquence, to withdraw at once from the Association. Next year literary meetings of the Association will be held before the oratorical contests, and at these meetings the successful competitors of previous years will read theses embodying the results of original research in their respective departments...
...received from Columbia and Yale, and that, by a vote of the last meeting, the challenge from Yale was first to be disposed of. The consideration of the Yale challenge had been postponed until it was seen whether Mr. Thompson, the captain of the Y. U. B. C., would withdraw unjust charges which he was alleged to have made against the referee of the last Yale-Harvard race. The President called upon Captain Bancroft to say what had been done in the matter...
...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; and if the challenges from Columbia are accepted, it ought to be understood that, in accepting these challenges, Harvard does not in the least bind herself to accept others...
...convenient time and place, these contests have never been sufficiently attractive to secure a fair representation of Harvard students either as contestants or spectators; and, unless something can be done in future to secure a larger representation from this College, it would be quite as well for us to withdraw entirely from the Association...
...USELESS moon, withdraw thy jealous face...