Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learning have closed their doors, and several of the colleges have been turned into training schools and military hospitals. All the students have gone to the front and many have sacrificed their lives for their country. None have remained, not even the theological students, whom the church will not accept if they are fit for military service. In regard to compulsory service in England, we have had to come to it, there being no other alternative, and have had it for about a year...
...make war by tourneys and by jousts while courtly ladies look on. We must prepare ourselves in terrible earnestness for the fierce efficiency of war. Each man who is truly and wisely patriotic will fit himself for that work in which he is proficient, and accept whatever place needs his special abilities. We may not all be captains in the company. But we should prove to ourselves what we may do, then accept our duty...
...insure the success of the venture. Volunteers are still needed for ambulance driving, however, but if the full number of enlistments are not obtained enough experienced drivers will be taken away from the present sections, without hurting their efficiency, to complete the two new units. The corps will accept as many men as volunteer, however, as vacancies are constantly occurring in the three old sections of the corps, when the six-month terms of enlistment for the men expire...
...last meeting of the Corporation it was voted to accept a gift of $24,782, contributed by 74 persons, many of them graduates of the University, to establish a fellowship in memory of Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, to be known as the Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship...
...Harkness has offered to Yale University new junior-senior dormitories to cover a whole block and accommodate 600 men. This gift is made in memory of Charles W. Harkness, Yale 1983, prominent at Yale and in the railroad and banking business. The Yale Corporation has voted to accept the gift. James Gamble Rogers, Yale 1983, has been appointed executive architect and Day and Klander consulting architects. This gift will put all Yale students in dormitories, and will provide a new building for the Peabody Museum, a new heating plant, and perhaps also a teachers' office. Work is to be begun...