Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King. Malcolm declared "As a leader, I would refuse to accept a prize for peace while my people had no peace...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs voted last night to accept a report from its committee on educational policy endorsing the principles in the Constable Plan for General Education...
...bull session at Adams House, Savio said that if the University Regents accept the peace proposal recommended by the Faculty Senate, and endorsed by the FSM, he would "put the FSM to sleep." There was no doubt that he meant it. "But if they turn us down, then just as this semester was wrecked, so will next semester be wrecked." Someone asked him if renewed fighting might not turn Berkeley into a fourth rate college with a fifth rate faculty. "We may be doing good if we get people not to go to the University of California," he said...
...talked it became clear that Savio is one of the biggest variables in the mess at Berkeley. After the Regents' meeting later this month, someone will have to formulate a response for the FSM. If the Regents accept the faculty proposal without reservation, then the FSM will almost surely go to sleep, as Savio promises. If they turn it down completely, the FSM will declare war on the administration, as Savio also promises. But both of these possibilities seem unlikely. The Regents represent the most conservative force with which Kerr has to contend. They are the most sensitive to charges...
...almost expected this (I have noticed, for one thing, that liberals, who profess to be the friends of change, often seem less able to accept it than conservatives). But I did not expect you to fall down on the job quite as badly as you have done...