Word: sanctioned
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...hoped that the Faculty, influenced by the success of this year, will continue in the future to give its sanction to such an excellent method of raising funds for the support of our crew...
...report which is now circulating, that all petitions are to be sent to parents at the end of the year, originated in the mind of some conscience-smitten undergraduate, and has not the sanction of those in authority...
...without regard to the opinion of others, brings something far better than such popularity, - the consciousness of having acted like a man. For, so acting, a man can never, unless he be misunderstood, lose the esteem, respect, and friendship of manly men. If misunderstood he still has the sanction of the voice within, - a sanction which to judicious men outweighs the opinion of a whole theatre of opponents...
...term I have received three invitations from University 5. Whenever I want to inform a friend of the fact I am in doubt as to the correct expression. Ought I to say that I have had three summons or three summonses? The notices on the bulletin boards seem to sanction the latter form. Then must I say that I am summoned or summonsed? If I have received three summonses, it is only consistent to say that I have been three times summonsed...
...were tolling for the death of one of the most efficient servants the cause of Education ever had. The clash of our college bell ringing for recitations with the bells on the neighboring steeples jarred on the nerves of every student who had ever known the deceased. Giving their sanction to such inhumanity, how can our Faculty complain if young men today lack the spirit of courtesy, patriotism, and nobleness that our forefathers...