Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...federation of the civic and speaking clubs have been definitely formulated. The committee, consisting of R. H. Smith '10, R. S. Hoar 2L., E. E. Hunt '10, T. M. Gregory '10, and H. M. Potter '10, has drawn up the articles of agreement given below. Each club is to accept, amend, or reject this plan, and to send two delegates to a convention to be held in the Union next Thursday at 9 o'clock...
...other Harvard organization known to be now in existence. This reputation may be undeserved, but it is none the less a fact which cannot be ignored. Second, it is well known that the headmasters of a number of prominent preparatory schools annually request their pupils not to accept membership in the club. Third, it is obvious that any college organization which selects its members largely in the first half of the Freshman year must in many cases base its choice on inadequate or mistaken grounds, thereby giving rise to injurious, because false, social distinctions. Finally, a club composed of Freshmen...
...Athletic Committee has met, the swimming is abolished. One more of the excellent minor sports which provide for the physical development of the undergraduates is gone. Although we are sorry to see swimming removed from the list of winter sports, we are compelled to accept the decision of the Athletic Committee as wise. Such success as has come to Harvard teams in the past has been due to individual excellence of the men rather than to any systematic training. We have long dwelt on the fact that there is no suitable swimming tank in Cambridge, and as a result...
Beginning the next academic year and extending for a period of ten years, the University has decided to accept three students each year as exchange students from Scandinavian universities. The students thus accepted must pass a suitable examination and be recommended by the American-Scandinavian Society. This arrangement is largely due to the efforts of President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, who is also the president of the American- Scandinavian Society. This is the first time that such a step has ever been taken, and it is hoped, by eminent educators in this country, that this will do much...
...audience sits hushed during the first act, trying to get into the situation. An understanding of the character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand...