Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fund-raising effort is Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was scheduled to appear this week at the Manhattan opening of an exhibit of J.F.K. memorabilia, including the late President's rocking chair, and to urge more contributions. Well in advance, he had told his staff that he would accept no radio or television engagements that did not have to do with the library...
Since General Education in the proposed Program is to some extend defined by what the departments accept for concentration, departments that choose to define their fields more narrowly than they now do will, by thus increasing the specialized requirements within the field, make it possible for a student to take for General Education what he presently takes as related work within his field of concentration. The result in such cases may be an overall reduction in the range of the student's education...
Only a year after the annual award was first given to Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), the HYRC was unable to find a prominent Republican to come to Harvard and accept the honor...
Earlier this year, the Club's repeated attempts to induce Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton to accept the award failed, as the governor did not even reply to the HYRC's requests. And then this spring, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) was asked to accept the award, but she answered several weeks ago that her schedule was too full to permit a trip to Harvard...
Above all, Von Salzen said, the club wants to follow the general trends established by the national convention. He cautioned, however, that it would probably be impossible to get the presidential or vice-presidential candidate to come to Harvard and accept the award...