Word: assents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers of the Class of 1923, in urging that the historic picnic be abandoned, are taking a step to which most of their classmates will quickly assent. The practice of the picnic in recent years has shown lessening of interest by the class as a whole, and an increased emphasis on its objectionable features. The custom is one which would die a natural death if no unfortunate occurrence interrupted it to bring a sudden end. The convenient riddance which the present Seniors propose will be a relief to succeeding classes and no great loss...
...steps by which China proposes to regain her financial autonomy are as follows--first an increase in customs duties from a theoretical five per cent ad valorem to an actual twelve-and-a-half. Only a day or so ago the Japanese refused to assent to a compromise rate offered by Canada at seven-and-a-half per cent. Last year she succeeded in blocking a proposal to revise the tariff schedule to bring about an effective five per cent, guaranteed to China by treaty (whatever that may signify...
Harvard College was founded by Puritans, the Harvard Divinity School as a department of the University was endowed by Unitarians, but the Divinity School today is no more a Unitarian than the College is a Puritan institution. The constitution of the School explicitly provides that "no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians shall be required either of the instructors or students." The Faculty comprises teachers from many communions; the students come from different denominations in which, after graduation, they render acceptable service as ministers. No teacher in the School ever thinks of harmonizing his instruction with that...
...caused him to realize that the most important factor in a good school is the teacher, and that schools and school systems need technically trained principals and superintendents as well as trained teachers. Accordingly in 1891 with characteristic courage--and in required courage in those days--he secured the assent of the governing boards of the University and of the Faculty to the appointment of a professor in a new field, the field of Education; and the appointment of an "Assistant Professor of the History and Art of Teaching" established at Harvard University the recognition of Education as a University...
...United States withholds its assent to Articles 156, 157 and 158 and reserves full liberty with respect to any controversy which may arise under said articles between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan...