Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head cheerleader Jerry N. Liebman '50 said last night he has asked Yale's 330-pound football coach to speak at the traditional Thursday parade and "believed he would accept." Hickman is flying to Boston tomorrow evening for a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association officials committee, he explained. "If Hickman comes, it will be something new," said Liebman. "I don't think Harvard has ever done it before...
...writing about the Sever chairs. This letter is the delayed expression of first growing doubt, then smouldering disgust and alarm, not only at the new chairs themselves but at the sheepish, unthinking acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...
...University fails to do this, HYP will ask that Massachusetts Hall accept full responsibility for the loyalty oath, since refusal to do anything about the matter, Bluestone says, is a tacit approval of the oath as a phase of University policy...
Last fortnight, the Episcopate abruptly shifted its stand, authorized priests to accept state salaries, to swear loyalty to the Communist "people's democracy" and to pledge themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take the oath with the qualification, ". . . Since I am convinced that the government would never ask anything which would be contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...Augarten and some others did not accept this pay. Others were strictly mercenaries or adventurers who left whenever they felt like it. Any one was free to go home when he wanted...