Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally "resolved" because of the Administration's embarrassment over the final clubs. The AAAAS was urged to strike out the discriminatory clause and, implicitly, substitute one of membership by invitation. Armah would have none of this. He kept telling the undergraduates, especially the American Ntgroes who were willing to accept the "final club" compromise...
...union officers also could not understand why Harvard was not willing to accept the results of the December 7, 1966, merger vote as sign of the intent of the BGMA's membership, nor could they understand why Harvard was unwilling to hold its own election to select a bargaining agent for the BGMA...
...other hand, a scholarship was offered for only whites, or only Muslims, the Corporation in all likelihood would accept it on the grounds that there would always be enough whites, or Muslims, in the University to avoid its becoming designated for specific individuals. The Corporation, in this case, might also decide not to give the scholarship to freshmen so that the scholarship qualifications could not cause discrimination in admissions...
...Harvard chapter, in a recent paper on the "critical radical perspective." Despite the radical rhetoric and slogans, "there is very little comprehension of what the words that are slung around mean either as descriptions of the society or as prescriptions for action." Most SDSers, they observed, still accept the notion that "getting a majority of people to vote for something creates a force for change"; that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot lose the war in Vietnam if it employs its superior military power. "In a very real way," they note, "rhetoric...
...activists of '67 leave college with a far more profound sense of the limitations to political action, in many cases a feeling of dismay and disillusionment. Some of them have moved from dissatisfaction with one aspect of the system to a much, broader, radical critique. But even those who accept the present social machinery for decision-making have become keenly aware of the compromises and sacrifices which must be made for the sake of "effectiveness." Among both radicals and moderates, there is a greater appreciation of the strength of forces resisting change, the ambiguities of problems and the failure...