Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College is concerned (if admitted at all) to find that, in the four years, he will have to get a regular college course besides his professional subjects. Springfield College does not recruit freaks; nor does it accept muscles as a substitute for brains. Applicants are tested as to aptitudes and then matriculated into one of the three divisions: Liberal Arts, Social Science or Physical Education...
...dilemma Dr. Hanfstaengl finds himself in looks curiously like another concoction for publicity purposes. To make an issue of President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination...
...portentously advised His Majesty and withdrew; the Son of Heaven summoned Prince Konoye; the Prince drove from the Imperial Palace to the villa of Saionji; and finally Prince Konoye drove back to the Imperial Palace, where he communicated to the Divine Emperor this startling intimation: "I am unable to accept the task of Premier for I am in great doubt that I could tide the nation over the present crisis...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...attempt to discriminate or dictate than if it were a telephone service. They were willing to file complete reports of costs and work done but not of unprotected technical secrets. Heeding these representations, the Commission last fortnight issued a new and milder ruling which the company was happy to accept. Last week it was announced that production would be started on the cable at once, that installation would be completed in six months...