Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While Princeton has thus been increasing its teaching corps, Yale has been forced to accept a reduction of its faculty. That the war is exacting its toil of professors as well as of students is indicated by the recent leaves of absence granted to members of the New Haven teaching staff to engage in Government service. The tariff commission has called Dr. Bidwell as it called Professor Taussig of the University; a British committee of information has asked for the services of Professor Canby, who will represent American interests in the work to be performed; the City War Bureau...
...heavy popular and soldier majority against conscription in Australia contrasts strangely with America's ready acceptance of the principle, and the resolve in the same direction lately taken by Canada. Why should Australia, a more purely British country than Great Britain herself, stand out against the universal obligation to serve the cause of world liberty when America and Canada accept...
...poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived the pains and that has expressed itself in an exuberant introduction. "I accept as genuine every poem in which the author sincerely and reverently calls out through the night and finds an echo of gladness and recognition," says Mr. Schnittkind. It is a dark night and many of the poets seem far from home...
...generally used signal among Teuton and Allied aviators to postpone a struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible than it is now, but when the battle itself seemed man's and not the devil's mode of fighting...
...Liberty Loan Committee of New England, therefore, requests merchants who are offering to accept Liberty Bonds in exchange for merchandise carefully to consider the practice and hopes that such offers will be withdrawn...