Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet the increase in applicants for entrance to the school, today's student enrollment is 50 percent above the level of the 1930s, and teaching programs have been greatly expanded, Dean David claimed. Nevertheless, "we are forced to deny admission to hundreds of men whom we would accept in normal times...
Demanding that "the United States accept major responsibility if there is another war," Professor Friedrich, who served as consultant to the American Military Government in Germany, outlined a three-point program for peace. He considered a prospect of world government "impossible" since "no one has solved the problem of how to create a workable federation...
Back from Elba. Defiantly, Miss Li campaigned as an independent candidate. But the Kuomintang cracked down: since she was still a party member, she could not run without party approval. Miss Li resigned, but the leaders refused to accept the resignation. "Illegal and undemocratic," squealed Miss Li. But when ward bosses rallied round and offered to start a write-in vote for her, she refused. "Thanks, thanks," she said, "but in the end you must vote for the party's choice...
...Bill Tilden's 6 ft. 1½ in. frame is bowed, his grey hair shaggy, and he reaches for his glasses before he can read a line. But he is anxious to make another pro tour, if "the public will accept me." In Hollywood last week, he shuttled from court to court giving tennis lessons to such high-paying movie clients as Mrs. Charles (Oona O'Neill) Chaplin, the Joseph Cottens, the David Selznicks. Said he: "There's a lot of money here for anyone who can teach the game...
...points of interest remain to the contrary. For one thing, Harman is happily situated with a rising eleven, with little apparent incentive to accept what most coached consider "the toughest job in the country," Secondly in telephone conversation last night to insisted to friends that he had been home all weekend, in a recent telegram to the CRIMSON he also denied having talked to anyone to all about the job in Cambridge...