Word: acceptances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter about the suspended Firestone debt payments to President Barclay, heading it merely "My dear Mr. Barclay." The letter was saucily answered by the President's secretary. Back went the secretary's letter with the oral comment, "You tell Mr. Barclay that the American Minister cannot accept a letter of such a nature from...
...there to belittle-or underestimate the historic rivalry with Princeton, and the cultural thrust of Yale has tended more and more toward the South. In fact, when the Big Three was an actuality in football, both Yale and Princeton favored a rotating schedule, a proposal which Harvard would never accept, insisting that the Harvard-Yale game should wind up the season. Undoubtedly that attitude is maintained at present and there is no immediate likelihood that the four universities will work out a scheme of rotation. Many of us regret this and would like to see a de emphasizing...
...feel also that I am ill prepared in many problems of sociology. I think tutorial work in this field should be combined with some original library research by the competent tutees. I would feel then that when I impressed any student with a principle of sociology, he would accept it from his own experience and not because I said so. I think this is due to the peculiar subjective nature of sociological phenomena and the fact that laws in sociology often contravene popular impressions and current pseudo-mores...
...that is going further than American public opinion is yet prepared to accept," continued Chancellor Chamberlain, then Great Britain will enter negotiations on two conditions: 1) any settlement reached must be final; 2) whatever sum the Allies agree to pay in War Debts must be so small that it "will not involve a resumption of the [Allied] claim on Germany for Reparations, which it was the object of the Lausanne settlement last year to end." At Lausanne the Allies promised to forgive Germany all but 1? on $1 of her Reparations debt IF they were similarly forgiven their War Debts...
...reply to a telegram sent by the University of California suggesting that Harvard enter an inter-collegiate crew Regatta at Long Beach in June, W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, wired that Harvard could not accept the invitation...