Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Bunche and a former associate professor at the Medical School have been the only Negroes to hold Harvard professorships previous to the appointment of Professor Amos. Bunche served as a professor of Government for a very brief period several years ago before resigning to accept his present position as Undersecretary of the United Nations...
...back to town, and a week later they were permitted to enter the same place untouched-there may yet be a certain amount of potential difficulty here. The whites have not yet made a major concession to their colored neighbors, and it's difficult to tell how they will accept integration when it begins to become a fact of daily life...
...with the help of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. If the schema is approved, Protestants would no longer be forced to promise in writing that they would raise offspring of a mixed marriage as Catholics. Moreover, some bishops are expected to ask that the council also accept the validity of mixed marriages contracted before non-Catholic clergy...
...House System's unwillingness to accept diversity or competition is partly, too, a reflection of the Master's belief in a contemplative atmosphere undisturbed by any educational version of the free-enterprise system. But it also mirrors their administrative desire to be insulated from pressure for change-a pressure that might grow very substantial if each Master decided parietal hours, dining hall dress, or whether students were required to live within the walls of the House...
...Negro which has left the latter little more than the particularistic fact of his blackness, his Negritude--and all this implies--as a means to grapple with his backward and demoralized status in society. As far as I am concerned, and perhaps other Negroes as well (though I accept Riesman's point in a recent letter to Commentary that in such discussions as this it is perhaps best to speak for oneself) this is a pathetic addition of insult to an already gross injury...