Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present group of scholars, that in the future they should be selected more frankly and deliberately according to the indirect ends they are to serve. Any scholar who stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates, but the end must be always and frankly...
...rehabilitation fund raised after earthquakes lately damaged Helena, Mont., $3,100 was contributed by distillers -Seagrams, National Distillers, Glenmore Distillers, Beng & Sons, George L. Tracy, Bertoglio & McTaggart. Of the $3,100, $150 was offered to, and gratefully accepted by, a Lutheran Church; $500 by St. Joseph's Orphanage House of the Good Shepherd. Last week St. Paul's Methodist Deaconess Home declined $500, announcing that "considering the source, it is impossible to accept...
...clear," Professor Perry remarks, "that James did not, like Hall, accept the experimental psychology of his day as marking the advent of the new era. This was clearly not what he was looking for! It is true that he had from the beginning, and never lost, a respect for facts. He distrusted speculation in vacuo, abstract dialectic, and learning from books. . . . But James felt, as we have seen, a growing distaste for experimental psychology owing to physical and temperamental reasons. He lacked the strength to spend long hours in a laboratory; a recurrent lumbago prevented his standing, and trouble with...
...temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot be pierced with toothpicks and up to the present only the very tiniest and bluntest splinters have been used. Now that Ohio Republicans have substituted a battering ram we can hope that Mr. Hoover will gracefully accept the increasingly obvious fact that many Republicans would not choose him as their leader...
...Vagabond confesses that the increase in the judicial review of congressional legislation does seem to have a significance in our day different than any other time; "Big business" feels that more than such an one as the Vagabond. But accept not a word he says...