Word: accept
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According to last Sunday's edition of Manila Times, "unimpeachable source have indicated that Harvard has put out a "feeler" exploring the possibility of conferring the degree on Marcos. According to the sources Harvard has said it "would be greatly honored if President Marcos could find time to accept an honory doctorate degree in commencement exercises next month...
...Times also speculated that the "feeler" indicates Marcos may be planning a state visit to the United States in summer. Harvard confers about a dozen degrees every year on the condition that the recipients accept the degree in person...
Already the program has many more applicants than it can accept. Quincy, Kirkland, Lowell, and Leverett all have more than 20 sophomores and juniors who have filled out applications. The HUC is accepting applications until Thursday, and selections will be completed early this summer...
...powerful and highly theatrical, the play has its problems. Strindberg was interested in dramatic conflict and theatrical tension, not in plot, and his plays have a loose form and pay little attention to careful characterization. Frequently he would resort to conventional melodrama. A modern audience finds it difficult to accept a plot device as blatant as that of the hidden letter in the chiffonier's secret compartment. But Strindberg doesn't care that his plot device was awkwardly introduced. Once he has introduced it, it becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating...
Eventually a group of local home rule advocates, including the Washington Home Rule Committee and the League of Women Voters, issued a statement advising home rule proponents to accept a modified Sisk plan as the only reasonable hope for home rule. Most people expected the Senate to withdraw its own bill and pass something similar to the Sisk Bill in order to expedite final passage of home rule in some form...