Word: accept
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...special status of the ROTC units as externally established and controlled Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies represents an undesirable delegation of authority by the Harvard Faculty. It appears that Harvard must accept at least the prescribed course content of the ROTC programs as a condition for maintenance of the programs. If Harvard were to determine that some part of the minimum content was inappropriate for a liberal arts college or if Harvard were to demand that any particular course material should be included in the curriculum, it would have no assurance that its desires would...
...letter to the University and the Cambridge City Government, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White indicated that Boston would accept Harvard's conditions again this year...
...credentials for success (Hello, Dolly and Mame). Still, this time he is out of his element. Chaillot, even as embodied in this musical, is not the completely frivolous comedy Herman has worked with in the past. Although essentially telling us the story of a comic woman who refuses to accept the fact that the modern world is a different place than it was in 1903, Giraudoux has more than frivolity in mind. Below the surface of his comedy is the serious warning that the snowballing forces of materialism, fascism and war must be checked if the human race...
...Negroes constitute an extremely small minority within most denominations: despite its progressive policies on race, the 2,000,000-member United Church is only 2% black. Another problem, particularly for those churches which emphasize lay authority, is that the majority of white congregations still tend to be reluctant to accept a black minister in the pulpit, even when a well-qualified one is available. As a result, many Negro clergymen are turning away from the goal of parish-level integration and are focusing their attention on the revitalization of all-black congregations...
Thanks in part to his conversations with young Jim, Bishop Pike now accepts the idea of a life after death-a belief that he at one point had abandoned, along with faith in the virgin birth, the Trinity and other major Christian dogmas. Still, not all readers are likely to be convinced. They may ask why a bishop who has been so skeptical of the received Christian tradition should so readily accept the assurances of assorted spiritualists that there are cats in the afterlife and that husbands and wives will experience a new kind of nonsexual spiritual relationship...