Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both University Planning Officer Harold L. Goyette and a spokesman for the Design School group said the new survey does not change their respective views of how much Harvard should do to ease local housing shortages. "I have never accepted the premise that one should accept as valid these overall targets of 4000 or 5000 units. One should only acknowledge the housing problem and continue to work on it," Goyette said...
...amazing thing is how they could accept our statement and reject a moderate statement supporting the day of protest," Ptashne said. (The Faculty amended the original Moratorium resolution-proposed by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-to say that the Faculty "recognizes that October 15 is a day of protest" rather than "affirms its support of the day of protest...
...Faculty should not spoil its nearly-unanimous feeling about the war by fighting over procedural questions. E. Bright Wilson, Theodore William Richards professor of Chemistry, said that the only way to get an overwhelming vote in favor of the Moratorium was to accept Doeringer's amendment. And Lipset argued that the anti-war resolution would seem to be a failure if 30 or 40 per cent of the Faculty felt compelled to vote against it-even though they support its aims...
...joining the Faculty, all members signify their will ingress to be bound by majority decisions with respect to those matters about which the Faculty is authorized and competent to act. But few if any members joined with the understanding that they were to accept the right or competence of any part of the Faculty to speak for them on matters of conscience and politics...
...possible for Nick to pass from his state of sinfulness to an experience of the joy and purpose he describes in the "evangelist." This is not accomplished through any irrational "leap of faith." Rather, through consideration of the historical and philosophical evidence, he can quite reasonably come to accept Jesus Christ both as a real historical person and as the living master of his life. Then the statement "Christ is in me" would be a reality, not a nebulous "religious" idea. Then the problem of sin would be dealt with, not suppressed...