Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margarita, freshman football coach since 1951, resigned yesterday to accept the post of backfield coach under Boston University's new head coach, Steve Sinko. The move came as no great surprise, since it had been remored in the Boston press for the past few weeks...
...Council refused to consider the parking report, submitted by a planning firm to the University last fall, until the members had read it. Although it was pointed out that "we approved a more controversial report last week without reading it," (the H.Y.R.C. report) the motion to accept the document's "minimal requirements" was tabled...
Sophisticated students may speak with contempt of the A and those who seek it, but when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they still operate under the same false standards. They are misled into believing that B-stands for some important, measurable level of learning...
There are certain peculiar aspects to the program. The first is that the student is usually without supervision, once he has been accepted in the program. His Department, usually History or History and Literature, recommends him for the program on the basis of a suggested project of study which is paralleled by no course in the University. The Committee on Advanced Standing will usually accept the petition. All the student does from then on is up to him, and if he has many outside interests or three-time consuming courses, he may do nothing at all with his advanced standing...
...Fruits of Victory. If Israelis could accept "assumptions" which were widely approved, instead of gun positions held in defiance of U.N. resolutions, they would not come out of their retreat at all badly...