Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the American Association of University Professors met in St. Louis for the purpose, among others, of revising its list of "ineligible" universities " colleges. The institutions which spot this list are the black sheep of U. S. education, and the A. A. U. P. will not accept new members from their faculties. The "ineligible" pen contained five such black sheep. DePauw (Greencastle, Ind.), Brenau (Gainesville, Ga.) and Harris Teachers College of St. Louis were penned up because their respective presidents had arbitrarily dismissed professors-in most cases outspoken liberals. So was Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.), which considers itself...
...small, middleaged, energetic, untidy, conservative in belief, liberal in practice. He smoked too many cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children of the day?" He had dozens of friends, who took up too much of his time with...
...President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either a night or a week-end there. But he never saw fit to accept even one of these invitations...
...white-whiskered Virginian named John Macrae, 68, president since 1923. A longtime Button custom has been to give employes a Christmas ''bonus'' of a new $10 bill. Last year Depression cut the bonus to $2.50, to the mental anguish of the three proud litterateurs who accept or reject Button books. Last week the three got together beforehand and resolved not to accept another $2.50 tip. When the cashier appeared with the envelope, each said with decision, "Thank the firm, but I can't accept...
...behind his whiskers. He called to his office the proud three, Merton S. Yewdale, editor-in-chief for ten years, and his two associate editors, Louise T. Nicholl and Samuel Middlebrook, told them that their refusal of the Christmas bonus was evidence of dissatisfaction and disloyalty, told them to accept or resign. With one voice the three resigned...