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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women join readily in games of vertical football and other traditionally all-male Pennypacker pursuits--a fact that surprises Reardon, who had expected the atmosphere to be "much more formal." But the formality and nervousness generated by conventional sex barriers are gone from Pennypacker; its residents seem to accept the incest taboo as part of living in a co-ed dorm...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Boys and Girls Together...' | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

...potential consequences of a decision to uphold the ruling so damaging, it is gratifying that the University has decided to prepare an amicus curiae brief to defend the California university's practice of allotting 16 places in each class for minority students. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to accept the case, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, will write the brief for Harvard. Cox wrote a similar brief two years ago defending the preferential admissions policy of the University of Washington Law School in the DeFunis case. But the Supreme Court did not rule on that case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

Fiske: But the debate doesn't seem to be over effective regulation. The debate seems to be over intrusion. For instance the new legislation regarding medical schools, requiring colleges to accept graduates, Americans who go abroad to study and then come back...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Now, Live From D.C., Here's Derek | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...standards but clear and present danger to democratic society. Yet the plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America-where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power-it is just impossible to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Upper Depths | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...American academic circles. It is clear, however, that the University has not agreed to any constraints on its part in respect to the voicing of antagonistic opinions of the Park Chung-hee regime by any of its faculty members or students. Though it is true that the University accepted the money, it is also true that it would only accept it with no strings attached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Angle? | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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