Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Yale forecasts a loss of 600 men, while Stanford sees a 50 percent cut and Princeton 30 percent. The latter is planning to undertake more government research projects on a cost plus basis, and Yale will try to admit an unusually large freshman class and accept more transfer students...
There are other examples, based on far less apocryphal stories, of the process doing some good. Einstein's skeptical attitude towards Newton's is one; the geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head...
After the Waldorf meeting adjourned, with all sense of urgency and unity and purpose fizzled out of it, negotiations continued on the detailed conditions on which the French would accept German rearmament. This week brought announcement from Britain that the French had agreed to a compromise. At last the construction of a unified defense of Europe under a U.S. commander could begin...
...step, the faculty is far removed from parietal rules, its one contact being the meeting each spring at which it reviews and renews the "Regulations for Students in Harvard College." It is usually willing to accept the world of the Administrative Board on matters parietal, but tends to take a generally conservative view because of the high average age of permanent appointees...
...students were not disposed to accept the new rule without a fight. Almost as soon as it appeared in the fall of 1936, the CRIMSON charged that "the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...