Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days ago we expatiated with pardonable pride upon the influence which our editorials of last year exerted upon the Board of Overseers in leading them to adopt English as the language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers...
...understood that we do not undertake to keep such a body as the Board of Overseers in the path of consistency, that is altogether too difficult and irksome a task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing at this position...
Harry Wright predicts that 75 per cent. of the players will next season adopt the flat bat, which is allowable under the present rules...
...natural, therefore, for Harvard to adopt a tradition that had such good usage behind it, although unprecedented in any American college; and at about the beginning of President Eliot's regime, we find that this was done. In the catalogue for 1870 is given for the first time, a list of electives under Professor Paine in music, including "harmony." "counterpoint," and the "simple forms of composition...
...disqualify single instances of unfair play that he saw, knowing such to be only a small part of what went on behind his back, and was hence in a false position. Division of labor among several referees was the true solution; let this be proposed to Yale, if they adopt it well and good; but if not, then let the game be stopped at Harvard. Mr. Williams thought that playing had improved in tone this year, and that the stronger public opinion of the present would uphold and carry through any changes as proposed. An urgent appeal was then made...