Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students do not accept ideas uncritically. They do and will listen to many points of view and want to reach an understanding of them with which they are intellectually and personally comfortable. Thus, while we feel it essential to present them with radical ideas, we also feel that they will respond to these ideas critically...
...positions back and forth. September 1964 U Thant got Hanoi to agree to unconditional negotiations in Rangoon, Burma. Thant informed Stevenson, ambassador to the U.N., of the agreement. Stevenson in turn communicated the news to Washington. Four months later Stevenson told U Thant that the United States could not accept the proposal. When Stevenson finally leaked the news of the rejection the following June, Rusk justified the administration's action by contending Hanoi had had no intention of entering "serious" negotiations at the time, citing his sensitive "antennae" as the source of his impression...
...pretense that Harvard has once again avoided any political commitment is a bit hard to accept in this case--and if Harvard is indeed still neutral on the grape strike, last week's action must have been taken exclusively to avoid unpleasantness with protesting students...
...other hand, Music I enrollment jumped from 275 to about 325 this year. Head section man Lowell E. Lindgren yesterday attributed "some of the increase" to pass-fail students. Over 100 applied to take Music I pass-fail, and the course staff decided Saturday to accept all of them, because of what Lindgren called the students' "convincing reasons...
...fans talked about Lalich when they left the Stadium Saturday, and they talked about his sidekick, a 260 lb. sophomore from Quincy, a bruising, sure-handed end named Pete Varney. No one will say who suggested switching Varney from halfback to end, but as the head coach must accept all blame so too must he accept the praise. The Lalich-Varney combination makes Yovicsin look very good...