Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...done before nor is it largely concerned on that point. Neither is the CRIMSON aware as to whether or not just the same situation has existed in former years. If there is something to be gained in choosing the Secretary in this manner the class will do wise to accept this amendment...
...next question is whether competent and successful business men will accept the positions if elected. President Eliot is of the opinion that the efficient citizen will accept, given conditions under which he may serve his city honestly and well. Another method of increasing municipal efficiency is to lengthen the term of office. In the new charters adopted by Galveston, Houston and Des Moines, this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates...
...means good enough. Where there have been men enough for two full teams for each class there should have been four and five teams. When we are providing healthy exercise and recreation for men on such a scale, we are beginning-to approach the ideal where all men will accept the chance to strengthen their bodies in good, wholesome games and develop a competitive spirit by measuring their ability with others. When we have twice the number of men playing class football as at present it will not only provide sport of the right sort for just so many more...
...indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against him. The tragedy of his defeat is enhanced by his enforced separation from the woman he loves, who is a Christian and, for that reason, hated by his followers...
...seen on Soldiers Field by a Harvard team in several years. In spite of certain failings, some of which were marked, there was an admirable quality in the way they went about their work and that is the secret of good teams. Moreover it signifies the way they will accept the handicap in the coming two weeks, and gives one confidence that the situation is by no means hopeless...