Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcing the date of its Sanders Theatre concert, the Glee Club is once more strengthening an occasion which members of the University have come to accept as an institution. Certainly this body of excellently trained singers, led under the direction of Dr. Davison, has done more than any other non-athletic organization to increase the fame of Harvard as regards extra-curricular activities. Pursuing a definite artistic goal and making no attempt to cater to any other public than that of the highest artistic taste, the Glee Club has won for itself a reputation which bids fair to become international...
While thousands of dollars are being solicited for the new Fraternity houses, many people, the fraternity men most of all, are asking themselves what fraternities accomplish. Without attempting to answer this question, it is obvious that if they accept the position of clearing houses of public opinion, there will be no doubt in any one's mind as to their true worth. --Yale Daily News...
...Viscount of the Irish peerage, i. e., although an English nobleman he had no seat in the House of Lords. For 40 years he steadily refused to accept an English Earldom...
President Hopkins proposes a conference for the consideration of his proposals. Because of the underlying agreement on general principles already pointed out Harvard should be the first to accept any such proposal so soon as it is forth-coming in its final form. The reform of the abuses to which intercollegiate football is at present subject, the further development of intramural sports and athletics for all, on these things Harvard and Dartmouth agree. Toward attaining those ends Harvard has so far chosen to be slow and cautious. That method, certainly useful when sympathy among other colleges for Harvard's aims...
...believe that $10,000 is an exorbitant salary, but said I: 'I went before the people of my state and asked them to elect me to a position paying $7,500 a year. They elected me, and I do not feel that I could accept an increase in good faith without giving them an opportunity to express themselves...