Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, is therefore most welcome. Epps said that he would ask CHUL to pass a rule that would effectively prohibit HRO from admitting outside members without express permission from Epps or his designated representative. Epps said he would insist that the orchestra accept a minimum of 90 percent Harvard musicians, while aiming for 100 per cent. The proposal is long overdue, and CHUL should accept Epps's suggestion...
...Ultimate Frisbee team receives no support from the Athletic Department. "It's apparent now that we are starting to be competitive with the top schools, teams that are taken seriously by their own school," Wiseman said. "I don't know if the Athletic Department is ready to accept us as a serious team...
...must ask: What sort of people have given us the version of the world that we accept as real and true? Who in Western society have been the church fathers, the statesmen, the scientists? And of course, part of the answer is contained in the very words of our question: they have been almost entirely the male scions of social privileged families. Therefore it becomes one of the tasks of those groups who have been excluded from the tradition of reality-making to examine the "real world" critically from their own viewpoints, and to generate their own models of those...
Schools at all levels, including the universities, have traditionally been the sanctioned purveyers of accepted realities: their task is to continue and extend the job that begins at home, of teaching the young person what she or he shall or shall not accept as real. To quote from Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan...
...charging him with possession of banned leftist newspapers--all more than twenty years old. Ten years ago, when he began to report on prisons, the government confiscated his visa, later restricted it, and it was only last year that he regained the normal traveling privileges that allowed him to accept The globe's invitation...