Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best essays for the ideas it expresses is entitled "After Religion, What?" by Frank Snowden Hopkins, a newspaperman. "The only philosophy," he says, which most members of the younger generation today can accept, "is one which is agnostic in its metaphysics, yet which stresses the faith of the human spirit in its own capabilities. It must be in short, a rational and purposeful philosophy, a creation of the human intelligence, a philosophy which, admitting all the limitations of the mortal mind, refuses to compromise with medieval superstitions and wishful self deceptions...
...Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan's belief that he expects the cosmic ray mystery to be solved within a year, advising laymen and teachers not to accept current findings as true until checked by several observers...
...weekend also disclosed that the Council will accept the responsibility for clearing up the confusion shrouding the elections. Thus any decision which it makes may be regarded as final...
...Carnegie Corporation, recently wrote, "Harvard is still 'princeps,' but no longer 'facile princeps"; and the story is current that at one of America's great universities it is considered the height of academic distinction to receive an invitation from Harvard--and to decline it. Without complacence Harvard can accept the compliment implied in this witticism. "We cannot ignore the fact," said President Conant in his annual report, "that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the out standing men whom we desire." Harvard must, as the President suggested, make academic life more attractive in Cambridge...
...could be ascertained no one in Cambridge has yet heard whether Gundlach, who will reach Cambridge today from Houghton, Michigan, will accept his election. Nothing has been heard from him since E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Council and displaced Marshal, telegraphed him the news at the time of his appointment...