Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was refused by the Metropolitan Museum because the provisions of the Senator's will "would preclude the inclusion of these objects with other like exhibits" (TIME, Aug. 10), it seemed likely that the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, substitute legatee, would reject it too for lack of room. Last week President Charles C. Glover of the Corcoran Gallery announced that certain parties had contributed $700,000 for the building of a wing to house the collection. The certain parties were the late Senator's widow, his three daughters...
...favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion of the lecture system. We believe, however, that such will be the general reaction at Harvard to Dr. Meiklejohn's suggestion...
...great power. The Locarno Conference was not ideally complete in its labors, but it was distinctly a step in the right direction for Germany and the world. I have every confidence the concessions promised us in the Rhineland will be granted. The German people cannot afford to reject the pact...
...bill passed by the House and the bill passed by the Senate, will be sent to a joint Committee to reconcile the differences between them. A final compromise will be made and reported out again to both Houses. Either or both of the Houses (probably the Senate) may reject the compromise and send it back once or several times until a satisfactory compromise is reached. Then both Houses will pass it perfunctorily, it will be engrossed and sent to the President. He will consult with his Cabinet, especially Secretary Mellon. He may then sign it with or without remarks...
...prepared, and that our children may be prepared, against a cataclysm which, if it ever comes, will overshadow what we went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven to get her in agony, like huddled sheep, by the fierceness of the storm...