Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geological Lecture Hall ), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and then some. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...fact, Glimp said, he had decided to accept the charity fund post-vacated by the sudden death of Wilbur J. Bender 27, a former dean of the College and Glimp's mentor at Harvard-on the morning of April 9. Less than two hours after he returned to his Harvard office that morning he was ejected from it by the first wave of students occupying University Hall...
...only romantic argument for real disruption-one which, as I have said, I cannot accept-must be that the disruption will give a non-illusory opportunity for extraordinary communication and, ultimately, real changes of life style...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reason he suggests-that the assumption is so cosmic that it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted": we aren't here to accept or reject: we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations) the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course-and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders" -you may be able to ferret...
...Harvard student what kind of grades he's been getting, he'll probably answer in terms of a Rank List Group. The Groups are simply a bookkeeping method, but they are important at certain times during your career. Each House, for instance, may accept applications from only a certain number of men in each Group. Some fields of concentration are effectively restricted to those in Groups One and Two The Dean's List contains everyone above Group Three...