Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that an unannounced benefactor has offered three horses for polo purposes, the management has been unable to accept the gift because of the lack of necessary funds to feed and groom the animals. The result is that, with the meager $1200 subsidy of polo, the team can never use its own horses in games away from home. This fact is made even more annoying because there are no contests scheduled in Cambridge this spring since there is no playing field...
...turned down. That whole difficulty would disappear at once if it is the Freshmen, not the Sophomores, who are being assigned to the Houses. Freshmen, till they have matriculated, have no rights at all. They will go to the Houses to which they are assigned, and they will accept the assignment almost as readily as they now accept the assignment of rooms in the Freshman Halls...
...Notable in conscience to accept laws that are enforced in my country, the Catholic Church in Mexico, not wilfully, but as a solemn duty, has found it necessary to completely suspend all acts of public worship...
...laws" which the Church is not able to accept, and on which the State continues to insist, chiefly require that members of any clergy before officiating must present themselves at a registry office and subscribe their names and addresses. The Protestant clergy complied with these laws from the first, are officiating unmolested. The Catholics, deeming any obeisance to the existing civil power, however slight, incompatible with conscience, continue to regard themselves as persecuted...
When three of the paintings arrived this year from Paris, the trustees bleakly refused to accept the gift. They gave no reasons, but Philadelphia art circles babbled with conjecture. The trustees were piqued at not being consulted, said some. They were being city-loyal, said others, and saving the work for some Philadelphia artist. Some people who took the trouble to view the Fulop paintings guessed that the trouble lay right there on canvas...