Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting a student in a category, an assigned grade encourages him to avoid his most important task--that of self-evaluation. He tends to accept the verdict of the system: if successful, he may not ask how to develop further; unsuccessful, he may feel discouraged. ("I was just a 'B' student. Of course I didn't know any Faculty members. Who would want to talk with me?" asked a typlical student. When grades are coupled with a system of impersonal lectures and final examinations, they students from entering unknown of study. It becomes advantageous to "play from strength"--to take...
...Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 and State Lt. Governor Edward F. McLaughlin Jr. battled desperately through ten tense hours of balloting, and not until about 7:30 p.m. yesterday evening did Peabody triumphantly make his way to the Convention platform to accept the endorsement...
...would probably struggle slowly back to the neighborhood of 650-largely stimulated by institutional buying, focusing on stocks with proven growth records, dividend yields of 4% or so, and price-earnings ratios of less than 20 to 1. Said Donald Meads, vice president of Investors Diversified Services: "If you accept the premise that prices were too high and yields too low to begin with, there is no reason to think that the market will go right back up to where...
...more than decoration. They are part of a way of life, and a way of seeing life, and a system of values that Faulkner has celebrated for years. Mules are among the most intelligent animals, he explains, because intelligence "is the ability to cope with environment: which means to accept environment yet still retain at least something of personal liberty...
...Roman Catholic Church, the Pope has all but complete authority to appoint any priest to the rank of bishop,* and the Catholics in the diocese must accept the appointed bishop's ecclesiastical authority. Last week Jesuit Theologian John Walsh suggested that the upcoming Second Vatican Council might well think about letting laymen have a hand in choosing their spiritual chiefs. Speaking at Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to a group of lay Catholics, Father Walsh pointed out that the laity had some hand in electing bishops for the first 1,000 years of the church...