Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University provides the House Plan--and the undergraduates accept it as the Senate "accepted" the invitation to the United States to join the World Court. Apparently it is felt that failure on the part of students to bring up objections to the Administration's projects would indicate a lack of independence...
...Game of Love and Death. Alice Brady chooses to meet the guillotine with her husband rather than accept his noble gift of passports which would have enabled her lover and herself to escape. With this verbose French revolution episode by Remain Rolland, the Theatre Guild's season continues to be disappointing...
...stated that some of the abuses which have grown up under prohibition are due to the failure of some states to accept their share of responsibility for concurrent enforcement. He has several times requested a general respect...
...ought to be viewed with especial interest. Undergraduate opinion there has been consistently hostile to the House Plan, yet the University authorities have gone ahead with no appreciable alteration of their original plans. Now the undergraduate must either refuse to acquire an intimate knowledge of the coming Harvard or accept the usual inconveniences of living under experimental conditions. We hesitate to predict the proportion who will choose the latter course, yet undoubtedly many will acquiesce in it against their better wishes; probably they will squirm under its impositions...
...Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...