Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McGill University's hockey team has expressed a desire to meet the winner of the Harvard-Yale hockey series in a post season game to decide the intercollegiate championship. McGill's offer has already been turned down by Yale, however, and it is hardly likely that Harvard will accept the Canadians' offer for a game either here or in Montreal as the policy here is usually against post season games...
...vote of the Faculty yesterday it was decided to accept Greek on the same basis as Latin as a means of meeting the language requirements for the degree of A.B. or S.B. This includes only the reading knowledge requirement...
President Hoover himself was not so apprehensive. He sent his predecessor a telegram asking him to dedicate the $6,000,000 Coolidge Dam on the Gila River in Arizona. Mr. Coolidge did not. promptly accept. The Hoover message was the first personal communication between the two men, as far as is known, since Mr. Coolidge turned his office over to Mr. Hoover a year...
...owns 34% of Reading; New York Central owns 25%. General was the belief that N. Y. C. had agreed to transfer its Reading stock to B. & 0., thus giving B. & O. control and a guaranteed entry to New York. For B. &O. to be the first road to accept the Interstate Commerce Commission's merger plan was not surprising, for thus this great system has made a deliberate and successful effort to accommodate the U. S. Government. No rail president is more popular in Washington than B. & O.'s Daniel Willard. He first won the favor of President...
...plan is faced with at least one practical difficulty, which is the reluctance of manufacturing concerns to employ men for the short space of three months, especially when there is no promise on the part of the student to accept permanent employment with any particular company after graduation. This is merely another form of the difficulty, that employers are unwilling to take over the apprenticeship or education of students without some immediate and tangible benefits to themselves. In an age of efficiency and sharp competition they can hardly be blamed. But in spite of this it is possible that...