Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen were out not only $3 each but also their priority on the better seats in the Bowl. It was at this point that Mr. Lunden said he was considering some changes in the ticket distribution system for next year...
...poor Margaret been through enough lately? Why this Koch cover [Nov. 7] to add insult to injury? Without her name being printed in the lower right-hand corner, guessing the identity of this insipid suburban debutante would be impossible. Accept ten demerits while I go on pulling at my smelling salts to get over the bad case of the "uglies" you have given...
Some 130 Washington alumni of the Harvard Business School set out this week to determine why the American businessman will or will not accept a high-level job with the Federal Government...
University officials would not accept these blanks on the advice of auditors, Lunden said. He did not comment further...
...Overseers are also too fond of common sense opinion. In referring to faculty problems and over-size classes, they remark, "We are prepared to accept the commonsense opinion of one of the students that 'Once a class gets bigger than fifty it may as well be a thousand.'" Although the student they interviewed probably has a lot of common sense in most matters, it is questionable how versed he is in problems of teaching. Most educational journal articles and educational texts on the subject disagree; dozens of university faculty members who have been interviewed since the report was published...