Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx brick pile is the embodiment of a theory, much argued by educators, that, like the slow-witted and the physically handicapped, bright students should be cut from the herd and schooled separately. It is one of four public high schools in New York City* permitted to accept or reject potential students on the basis of academic ability...
Under the terms of the "Preliminary Statement" (which was written for the Faculty Committee on the Theatre), the standing faculty committee-to-be will be able to reject plays unless "it is satisfied that the plays proposed meet the standards this university should maintain." "Proposals for the production of plays may originate with student groups, with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them...
...desperate case of Mrs. Lowman, doctors operated for the first time on a new theory. Since antibodies are born in blood cells produced in the bone marrow, it might be possible to curb them by destroying the marrow itself. No mechanism would then remain to reject a transplanted tissue. New bone marrow, from several donors to minimize antibody hostility, could then be injected intravenously...
History and Literature has decided to reject all applicants who do not take today's language examination, William R. Taylor '42, chairman of the Board of Tutors, stated yesterday...
...Radcliffe Student Council indicated last night that it would reject any proposal for formal representation of Radcliffe on the Harvard Student Council. However, the members agreed that informal cooperation with the Harvard group on special projects would be welcomed...