Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college enrollments and expenses rise and the need for aid funds increases, Bender predicted, colleges will tend to "swallow hard when funds with objectionable terms or procedural requirements come along, and accept." He said the problem is making financial aid officers into "greedy mendicants...
...office, 52 Dunster St., will accept nominations for the play until...
...helped put together such later industrial giants as General Electric, merged several companies to form U.S. Steel, with the steel works of Andrew Carnegie as its nucleus. When Carnegie scrawled the price he wanted on a scrap of paper ($447 million), Morgan characteristically glanced at it briefly, snapped: "I accept." At one time Morgan controlled six banks and trust companies, three life insurance companies, ten railroads and a cluster of huge corporations. He and his associates held 341 directorships in 112 com panies with total resources of $22 billion...
...will satisfy "politicians" but that have no possible educational consequences, while other students feel that it is hopeless for any one institution, or even group of institutions, to take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this is not an easy issue to resolve, but in my judgment, Harvard would be remiss in its specific educational function to all its students if its actions as well as its curriculum didn...
...This company hires a regular chamber orchestra to play for its workers, as a regular part of their employee public relations." As attractive as this position may have seemed, he turned it down to accept his present dual job of conducting the HRO and teaching a graduate course...