Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tests incorrectly. "I took them back to her. That's the kind of person I am. She felt defensive and gave me a spanking." He questioned his teacher almost daily, and she punished him equally. His classmates took the teacher's side. "That helped me a lot to not accept things as they come...
...President Sally H. Zeckhauser says that Harvard does accept responsibility for tenants in special cases. Recently, she says, HRE helped one family relocate from a building slated for sale into another University-owned apartment because one member of the family was disabled. "It's a real exception rather than the rule," Zeckhauser says about HRE's attempts to help a few tenants relocate...
President Bok tried to woo the young professor of ethics away from Princeton seven years ago, but he couldn't convince Dennis F. Thompson to accept the Kennedy School post he offered...
...whether guilty or not, young or old, must accept the past. We are all affected by its consequences and liable for it," he said in that 1985 speech...
Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...