Word: abandoning
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President Seelye of Amherst college has been obliged through ill health to abandon his duties for the year. At his departure for Europe on Monday all the students turned out in a body and cheered him as his train left the station...
...think it would hurt the freshmen to receive a little advice from the captain and members of the University eight, who will not be slow to inform them that unless they abandon the stroke under which they have attained such snail-like velocity, and take a tremendous "brace" all round they are destined to a terrible defeat in every race...
...anomaly that our colleges should teach a system which is directly opposed to the settled tariff policy adopted by our country almost from its foundation, and which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem...
...spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style of writing, and confine itself to honest, good-natured humor...
...table if they so desire. The nine will have its own captain and manager, and games will be arranged for it. It will also be a part of their work to play against the University nine. The management hope to see the plan succeed and unless it does will abandon...