Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard professor can no longer accept a Federal grant for a research project unless he promises to tell every month how much of his effort within the University is going into that particular project. He puts the figure (a percentage) on an "effort report." His report is then filed with his department, and may be reviewed by the government...
Only Harvard and other universities, acting together, can apply the pressure on the agencies and in Congress that will get effort reporting rolled back. They are, from all indications, about to try. If they fail this time, or accept another weak compromise, effort reporting is probably here to stay...
...think we trifle with the intelligence of the American democracy when we assume that it will never accept bad news, must indeed be fed a constant diet of good news about past programs, accompanied by forecasts of catastrophe unless new and even greater ones are enacted...
Hershev has been singularly unimpressed by the whole to-do over his agency, and it is unlikely that he would accept even the most humble revision of Selective Service without making a scene. It is not that the general is oblivious to public opinion. He goes out of his way to cater to it. He said of the 1955 bill to extend the draft: "Let us hope, pray or what not that the thing expires on a year not divisible by two. There are several reasons that I need not explain to you why this is so." Elections, for example...
Alan Austin '70, president of the Freshman Council, said he considers Von Stade's approval the key to having the longer hours accepted by the College. He expects the Administrative Board to accept Von Stade's recommendation...