Word: accept
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...cited four former University professors, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Josiah Royce, and William E. Hocking, who tried to reconcile Christianity with other religions, and urged a new effort to understand different faiths. "We must set aside differences caused by the accidents of geography and accept the universal ideas transmitted by a common heritage." Such ideas, he stated, are necessary to avoid "hollowness" in life...
Harvard is not plagued by this "wrong division" very much as the University, unlike most others, does not accept grants for secret projects, according to Don K. Price, Dean of the School of Public Administration. Price is collaborating on a report to President Pusey on the role of federal aid to the University...
Yale's Jordan Olivar mentioned that some alumni may get excited because their team cannot accept a bowl bid because of the Ivy agreement. Yovicsin quipped, "Some Harvard alumni will be pretty excited after this game...
...General Assembly showed, the neutral nations have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation of youth without undue suspicion, and (3) the establishment of a U.N. corps would leave the Soviets with a choice of either joining in and thus surrendering a certain propaganda initiative, or boycotting the group and thus setting itself up in competition...
...either case, the U.S.-and the underdeveloped country involved-might be better off than if a strictly U.S. peace corps were sent. However, the central question of draft-exemption again comes up. Is Congress likely to accept U.N. "Peace Corps" work as an alternative to military service, even for just a few hundred or thousand youth? And for the U.N. program it raises difficulties: who would select the participants...