Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that "it is now too late to call a convention" to deal with the question of changes in the Senior election procedure, the Student Council last night declined to accept the demands of the Committee for Electoral Reform. The group's demands were supported by 127 Senior signatures...
...utmost, but also place its accuracy and good-naturedness at a premium. No waitress nor student waiter can be expected to remember all the fine points of the individual orders of eight, twelve, or sixteen men. Nor, under the pressure, can any one expect that he or she should accept criticism of his or her efficiency with complete indifference. Making use of a simple device might improve both the service and the attitude towards...
Meanwhile Committeemen issued a statement in which they said that, although they had hoped that the council would hold up the nominations for the Second Senior election, they would accept these nominations as "faits accomplis...
...rumor has been circulated around Harvard that a popular English instructor who resigned about a year ago desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...
...seem to be morally objectionable because it proposes that the University, a private institution, should tax some of its employees for the benefit of others. But by so doing, the University would merely be following the principles approved by Congress in the Social Security Act, which Harvard professes to accept as its own standard. If the University should choose to be guided by broad sociological considerations rather than by narrow logic, it will see that a policy of accepting the principle of security for the lowest paid and then failing to provide that security, defeats the whole purpose...