Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which he can reach with his own hands...
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky man's name, all in proper form for submission to the Senate for confirmation. . . . Now here is a report and a recommendation from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation...
Where the defendant does not want to be divorced, and refuses to sign power of attorney, the Sonora law requires a personal service of a copy of the petition on the defendant; and in case he or she will not accept service - a confirmation of the facts alleged must be obtained by the taking of depositions from two witnesses at their place of residence...
...noised abroad that the undergraduate publications at Harvard were in favor of refusing Edward S. Harkness' gift of $11,000,000, it was generally conceded that the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and the Crimson were "out of order." The prevailing opinion seems to be that colleges should accept money under any circumstances at all times and from anybody who wishes to donate...
...Yard, every indication points to an uprooting of the ties which now bind the first year unit to the dormitories fronting the Charles and a transplanting of the entire Freshman group in the Yard. Such a step, radical as it may seem to those who have come to accept the present distribution of classes as an inevitable law, would only be a corollary to the policy of dividing Harvard College into six Houses, the occupants of which will be, not Freshmen, but Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores. With the building program being directed toward the river, future first year classes will...