Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop's plans were all wrong, Dietz argued before the Cambridge City Council, the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals, Governor Endicott Peabody '42 (an old football friend), and a Massachusetts Superior Court. There was no reason, he said, to accept the assurances of Coop directors--some of them Harvard officials -- that their plans were the best possible. "Intelligence in one particular field," he wrote at the time, "is not generally transferable...
...Twenty years ago I'd be shipwrecked if I didn't make an Olympian out of an Abramson,' "says swimming coach Bill Brooks, "but now I accept that he is a class marshal and has other committments as well as swimming...
Most coaches accept the senior decay as normal, and even as healthy. "It wouldn't be Harvard if more than a few boys devoted their greatest amount of attention to athletics," says one coach. Recognizing the necessity for outside interests, Barnaby keeps only loose demands on his players in order to avoid binding them down...
Cambridge announces that it will begin handing out $1 tickets for jaywalking. The Office of Economic Opportunity gives Harvard $12,000 more than it requested for its high-school aid program. Radcliffe gets a $17,000 grant which will allow it to accept more girls from low-income families...
...June 1965, Lowell declined President Johnson's invitation to a White House arts festival. Lowell wrote, in a letter to the President, that he viewed Johnson's actions with "dismay and distrust." He claimed that he could not accept the invitation in good conscience. "Every serious writer," he said, "knows that he cannot enjoy such public celebration with-out making subtle public commitments...