Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Department, will take his place. After an absence of eleven months Mr. Hunnewell has now returned and in addition to his former duties will assume those of Secretary to the Corporation. The resignation is to take effect on February 15. Mr. Pierce leaves the University to accept the position of Vice-President of the New England Trust Company of Boston...
...Bolshevism, and Wilson. The constant attention focused upon labor during the war has brought out its full importance. Men are accustomed to look upon the individual as the unit. They have learned the lesson of concerted action. They have acquired a new point of view and are prepared to accept new ideas...
Princeton and Cornell have organized Field Artillery units. Brigadier-General Robert M. Danford adds: "During the coming week Colonel R. C. F. Goetz will go to Cambridge to organize a Harvard battery, . . . . It is hoped and expected that about twelve or fifteen of our largest universities will accept the invitation to undertake Field Artillery courses...
...Eliot's specific proposals for organizing a national army, we are inclined to accept them in substance, with some few reservations, particularly in regard to his idea of a non-paid army. It has long been a serious problem of national policy to find means for providing a better distribution of educational opportunities among the masses of the American people. For that reason we would propose, in conjunction with the military training at the various depots throughout the country, a well ordered and thorough course in industrial education which shall afford to men of suitable capacity and inclination an opportunity...
Many economists are beginning to accept as inevitable the permanent operation of our railroads by the government. The inextricable tangle into which the railroads were plunged even before this country had entered the war seems in itself almost sufficient proof that government ownership should be adopted to avoid the repetition of such a disaster. In a country where the geographical division of labor and industry has been carried to such an extent as in America, the welfare of the people demands efficient and unified service on the part of the railroads at all times; conflicting interests of shippers...