Word: accept
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...diplomatic salaries is one which most thoughtful citizens will deplore. Our present scale of salaries is woefully inadequate, the compensation in the higher grades averaging about one-third of that paid by other powers. Under such circumstances it is not strange that most persons find themselves unable to accept important positions; and partly as a result of this, no less than fifteen of our diplomatic posts are at present vacant, at a time when our interests urgently demand representatives of the highest order...
...satire without anger, and an "indulgence" in which witticism and emotion are skillfully combined. It pleases more than all by its "esprit"-a light and brilliant sort of "esprit," crackling and sparkling which finds the right "mot" at the very second the spectator is waiting for a reason to accept...
...Cultivating in students the habit of docile acceptance of doctrines, however safe in themselves, is no insurance against mischievous doctrine. A student who accepts one theory in this passive fashion is just as liable to accept its contrary at a later date. The only method on which reliance can safely be placed is that of training the student in the first-hand investigation of facts; in the power of seeing which facts are significant; and in the drawing of valid inferences. To learn to think straight is the chief aim of a college education...
Definite word has been received by the Yale crew management that Guy Nickalls will accept the position of head crew coach for the coming year. Mr. Nickalls, who is now in England, where he has been active in English crew work since the war, expects to sail on February 21 for the United States, and will arrive on March 1, at the time when the crews will begin work. Mr. Nickalls was head crew coach at Yale in 1914-17, during the first two of which years he turned out championship crews...
...face, as far as that goes, the ballot shows an extraordinarily even division. Almost equal thirds stand respectively for full ratification on the Wilson basis, for absolute refusal to accept that basis or a compromise, and for a compromise settlement. The last proposal runs a few thousands ahead of the other two. Did this division furnish a true sample of the state of mind of the whole nation, we should be forced to find in it an evidence of pronounced and central cleavage. Anyway, the vote is two to one against the League in its present shape...