Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflect on one's relation to Harvard with the warm feeling pecular to romanticists ; it is an instant of gaiety at a crossroads of life, a careless laugh at the occasion, and a happy oversight of its significance. Graduation, like tragedy, has its comic element, and its participants accept it undramatically in the way that people experience all great events. Graduation is as simple as the black of the seniors' gowns and the white which their families and friends wear in celebration...
...about the situation is that it seems to represent the fruit of what Mr. Conant once called his "basic policy." Just what the basis of this policy is we are not quite sure. If it is solicitude for the tribulations of young faculty men which has led him to accept the Committee of Eight's suggestion that the rank of assistant professor be eliminated, did the President have to move with speed that was never anticipated by that Committee? If budgetary difficulties complicate the situation, why does he not adopt the Committee's suggestions for a more flexible budget...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...
Businessmen now generally accept-with reservations-the Securities Act as a wholesome reform. But in 1933 many fought it bitterly, arguing that no one could take the risk of issuing securities because Section 11 of the Act provides that any purchaser of securities can recover damages from the issuers for subsequent losses if misrepresentations or omissions were made in the official registration statement. In six years of the Act's operations this bugaboo failed to materialize. Last week the dreaded event took place for the first time...
...hope that instructors will refuse to accept without protest examinations couched in a style which does not conform to 'reasonable' standards of clearness and correctness...