Word: accepts
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This change is largely a semantic one, made necessary by the unwillingness of young potential Faculty to accept an instructorship at Harvard when they can get an assistant professorship anywhere else...
...reasoning that the amendment, in effect, abridged freedom of speech. In a 7-to-l decision last week, the Supreme Court disagreed and upheld the congressional amendment by comparing the burning of draft cards to the destruction of tax records, also required to be kept by law. "We cannot accept the view," observed Chief Justice Warren, "that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled 'speech...
...Baltimore County Jail He also sentenced him to six years in a federal prison for the earlier raid. The Berrigans took the judgment in stride. "Maybe one way of getting free these days is going to jail," said Daniel. Added Philip: "Our church is slowly beginning to accept our consciences, if not our acts. The priesthood is demeaned infinitely more by silence and inaction than it is by what we have done...
...nevertheless seems to be more restrained than the Class of '69, '70 or '71 is likely to be. At many campuses, the instigators of the most violent demonstrations were sophomores or juniors. The seniors still see more in U.S. life worth saving, and have a far greater willingness to accept its traditions. English Major Thomas McKenna of Notre Dame rather pretentiously defines the Class of '68 as "the in-between class. We are the last of the old radicals, those who are willing to revolt in the systematic American way. We could be the salvation of everyone...
Penn Coed Lucy Conger refers to her class as "the silver-platter generation." No economic depression clouds their horizon, and most students seem to accept the inevitability of luxuries with patrician assurance. In fact, the degree of affluence is astonishingly high: at the University of Texas, for example, nearly a third of this year's seniors come from families earning $20,000 a year. Indifferent to monetary success, a surprisingly large number of graduates are planning to enter such service vocations as teaching, social work, urban planning or small businesses, where they hope to define their own destiny. Many resent...