Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter was sent to a great number of educators, scientists, writers, and leaders of though in all occupations and makes a plea for the modernization of religious teaching. While praising the Bible Professor Holmes advocates ridding the modern man of the necessity of a formal acceptance of many "mediaeval superstitions" in which the great organized churches persist. "The modern mind cannot and does not accept them actually, so we have the unfortunate and essentially dishonest situation of thousands professing to believe what they do not really believe...
...year for four years to any college that would give his son a "custom-made education, a complete job to specifications," and guarantee a result "superior to the usual quantity product." According to the story, as told in the Atlantic, a certain college president lacked the nerve to accept the challenge. But Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, accepts it and says he will do the job for his regular rate of only $700 per year...
...merely the deletion of the copied passages. On the other hand if the student himself must prevent the cheating, he knows what to do and what not to do. He knows what the responsibility of the honor system is and is either willing to abide by it or to accept the consequences of violating his word...
Another vacancy on the Finance Com mittee occurred when Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett resigned to become Ambassador to Germany. To take his place Senator John Thomas of Idaho was chosen. Kansas-born, banker, stockman, twice Idaho's Republican National Committeeman, Senator Thomas was accept able to his Eastern colleagues because he is only irregularly irregular in his senate votes...
...having been drawn to my attention that students in the Engineering School have been led by the statement in the Catalogue to believe that they would be treated like undergraduates in Harvard College with respect to living conditions, the Masters of the first two Houses have been authorized to accept applications from Freshman and Sophomore engineering students: but the status of the students hereafter entering the School is as yet undetermined...