Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saltonstall Committee report, urging a $60,000 plaque in Memorial Church as Harvard's memorial to its World War II dead, will be presented formally to officers of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs tomorrow. And tomorrow the alumni officers can accept or reject the report for once...
Before making the final decision, however, these gentlemen should first give an audience to student sentiment. Ever since the Saltonstall group was first formed, students have been asking for a memorial of practical rather than ornamental value--preferably a Memorial Activities Center. Nine days ago the Committe announced its rejection of such a center, mainly on financial grounds. Two student groups, the American Veterans Committee and the Student Council, have now asked alumni officials to reject the plaque plan and turn to the activities center. Their position is essentially the position of most undergraduates, who wish for a memorial...
Tomorrow the alumni authorities will hear the reasoning of the Saltonstall Committee. They should heed also the AVC and Council statements. If the officials believe that the student stand is correct, then the only logical course will be to reject the Saltonstall Committee's report...
...than any buck private's in boot camp, and his work week, even by the Academy's presumably conservative estimate, is calculated to take 72 hours of his time. For the right to these dubious advantages, he must first undergo a complete mental and physical check-up which may reject him for such various causes as facial ugliness or unfilled cavities in the teeth...
...Pink." She sometimes has artistic disputes with the dealers, who have their own ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers...