Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
Although ease of transition from elementary to grammar school is important, it is no less necessary to maintain intact the educational connection with the college. Unless one is to deny many a boy of moderate circumstances adequate training for university work, the public school must accept the burden of that preparation. Already a gap exists between the college requirements, as enforced through the entrance examinations, and the ordinary high school training. Making the gulf wider by increasing the emphasis on practical rather than cultural subjects in the secondary schools is a violation of that democratic principle which strives to give...
...applications for the Junior Dance to be held in Memorial Hall on March 19, will be received by the Dance Committee until 10 o'clock tomorrow night, it was announced yesterday by J. R. Burke '27, Chairman of the committee. The committee will not be able to accept late applications and in order to make it more convenient for applicants to make known their intentions, a member of the committee will be in Randolph 48 between 1 and 10 o'clock today and tomorrow...
...months he had been trying quietly to persuade the Egyptian government to accept a large number of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s dollars for a museum to house the relics that diggers of all nations are constantly extracting from the soil of the oldest nation. Mr. Rockefeller had written King Fuad a personal letter, and Professor Breasted was there to back...
...voted to accept the Rothschild student travel scheme which will permit 400 American college undergraduates to go to Europe next summer for study and travel in foreign colleges and to end up at the congress of the Confederation International des Etudiants which will be held in Prague in the fall. A travel committee composed of Marion Breckenridge of Vassar, Lewis Fox Princeton '26, and F.V. Field '27 was appointed...