Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems as though Yale and Princeton have, for once, set aside the "Harvard first" policy. This is all the more to be regretted in view of the recent strong agitation in favor of tennis as a major sport at Harvard. That the Student Council should summarily reject the plan does not suggest that they considered the matter too carefully. Constituted, as that body is, with a large proportion of its members being the Captains and Managers of the present major sports, it is not hard to observe their psychological effect on the body as a whole. We may suppose that...
...unconditional ratification, 699, exactly equals the combined totals for reservations and amendments. The undergraduate vote was 363 for choice one as against 366 for choices two and three and that in the other departments of the University showed a similar ratio. Only 288 students who voted would completely reject the League...
...Paris Conference are due wholly to the appeal that his program has made to the imagination of the great mass of the people of Europe. Statesmen are following him not because they like him personally but because their people are following him and because they know that if they reject the Wilson program they have nothing to substitute for it that can satisfy public sentiment. It is their one bulwark against the Anarchistic flood...
...being fought." He advocates that to make a successful and lasting peace, the conferences should consist of two bodies, one made up of nominees of the Government to act as an initiating and drafting committee, and the other made up of delegates of the people who will approve or reject these proposals...
...Monthly's temporary demise. Yet Harvard sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked on as one of the proofs of Harvard's difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven...