Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the affair depends largely on several "ifs", it is considered likely that Colonel Apted would regard such a proposal in a receptive frame of mind. Should he accept this post, he will have to relinquish his connection with the College...
Bedocked in their flannel blazers, Harvard's band will vie in tricky formations with the cadets at West Point tomorrow. 96 men strong, they will appear in Michie Stadium at one o'clock on the game afternoon to parade for twenty minutes, when they will relinquish the field to the cadets. Again between halves the band will show its wares to the accompaniment of "Wintergreen", the perennial favorite...
...lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
Concluding seventeen years of service as dean of the Medical School, David Linn Edsall will relinquish his post next September 1, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Edsall, who is also resigning the posts of Dean of Medicine and Science, and Dean of the School of Public Health, submitted his resignation at the last meeting of the Corporation...
With 135 tons of lead ready to bear down at any time to the task of getting out the November exams of which about 19,000 copies will probably be required for Harvard and Radcliffe, we fear that the neglectful student had better relinquish any vague hopes that on the morning of the exams he will find any of them unprinted. We have heard stories about the student who, armed with a pair of white flannel pants, tried to get a copy of an exam beforehand by sitting on the form. Undoubtedly there are other such legends floating about...