Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...
...most striking change in the arrangement is a provision which makes it mandatory for a freshman to accept or reject an invitation within an hour after he has received it and before he has had opportunity to discuss it with his classmates...
...Faculty declined to enact them. No one could complain of too cursory and inadequate consideration of the subject, for it has been before the Faculty during a whole month. The students have a natural wish to be shown the faults in these two proposals. Why did the Faculty reject them? C. H. SMITH...
Every effort should be brought to bear on the directors of the Co-operative to reject the submitted "design" for the new front. This "design" is almost comic in parts, it is ill-related to the buildings around it, possesses no beauty of its own and I do not believe it is even well planned for its purpose. It has met with the most sweeping and unreserved condemnation in the architecture school. Let us hope that such an eyesore will not be foisted on the Square to remain for years to come. KENNETH J. CONANT...
...contribution of fundamental importance in the study of matter has been advanced recently by Professor Theodore William Richards. Hitherto, the theory of the incompressibility of atoms has been generally accepted, but for Years Professor Richards has been making observations that have led him to reject the theory. He now advance the opinion that changes in volume are not due to changes in the extent of empty space between the molecules, but to changes in the volume of atoms. That is, atoms change under varying conditions. As Professor Richards points out, this theory is not so arbitrary as the now accepted...