Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...because it wanted to prove that curtailment is not a proper remedy for distraction. It wanted to cut deeper, by dealing with the student activities as a whole, in the creation of a sentiment that can never be legislated into existence. It remains only for the College to accept the plan in the same spirit of co-operation in which it was drawn. We are trying to help the Athletic Committee, the Faculty, and the College. Think over the committee's proposition and come to the mass meting prepared to cast a willing and intelligent vote...
...integral part of a great university; it wants to be treated as a unit, to be dealt with from a different point of view, to have its own rights and privileges, apart from the other Harvard schools, of which we are all proud, but which we hesitate to accept as composed of loyal Harvard men. So long as the Law school is made up of graduates of every college of the land, its devotion will not be to Harvard--no matter how great may be the individual attachment to the real or adopted Alma Mater...
...heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...Deans are not eligible to reappointment, or will not eligible to reappointment, or will not be given the choice of retiring or remaining in office. We sincerely hope that, with Mr. Garcelon in office, Dean Briggs, Dean Huribut, and Dean Sabine may have the time and the opportunity to accept the position both for the sake of the benefits of permanency and because we appreciate their efficient labors in behalf of Harvard's athletics...
...more and more serious despite the untiring efforts of those, responsible for its management. The failure of the present plan to appeal more generally to the University has led some even to suggest the undesirability of maintaining large dining associations at Harvard, a suggestion which none of us will accept without far more conclusive proof than we yet have...