Word: acceptably
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James Hard Ropes, Assistant Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, has been elected principal of Phillips Andover Academy, by the trustees of the Academy, to succeed the late Rev. C. F. P. Bancroft. Professor Ropes is as yet undecided whether to accept the position...
Next he spoke of the duty of the American Church in the Islands. The natives are a people with Oriental ideas, who cannot be expected to accept at once our Christianity with its distinctly western spirit. The Christian missionaries must be able to get hold of the spirit of the people. The next duty of the Church in the Philippines is to the American population. There are, exclusive of the Army and Navy, about seven or eight thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have...
...track team has received an invitation to enter a relay team in an indoor meet to be held in New York on March 1. It has been decided not to accept, as the training for this meet would interfere with the regular track work. The final trials for the selection of relay teams for the B. A. A. meet on February 8 will be held on Thursday afternoon. Four men and two substitutes will then be chosen to run against the University of Pennsylvania; and a similar team will be selected from each class to run in the interclass races...
...place recently made vacant by the resignation of Mr. W. F. Willoughby, has been filled by the appointment of E. Dana Durand, Ph.D. Dr. Durand was formerly Legislative Librarian of the New York State Library, but left that position to accept a position on the Stanford University faculty. Upon the organization of the United States Industrial Commission he was made secretary to that body, a position which he has since held. He is the author of a work on the finances of New York City. He will give Economics 9 and 9a during the second half year...
President Eliot has received an invitation from the Tokio Harvard Club to visit Japan during his western trip, but is unable to accept...