Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe that the plan which Harvard is to adopt, of offering certain half courses to be completed by a half year's work, is a wise one and is a movement in the right direction. The advantages it offers are obvious, and it is certainly to be hoped that the experiment next year will meet with complete success. If the plan does prove successful there would seem to be no reason why it should not be largely extended and made to include under its operations many other courses. Indeed, it is a question that may well be asked...
...absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours and the other clubs selected in turn the hours left unoccupied. Why cannot we adopt the same plan in the matter of our tennis courts (I use the word "our" advisedly since the courts are not private property)? Let those who hold the courts now select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them...
...changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...
...Harvard Library was the first to adopt the "card catalogue" system...
...cannot too highly praise the plan recently adopted at Yale, the particulars of which we learn from a Western exchange. "Dress suits," it says, "will be discontinued by the ushers at the Yale junior examinations." The plan of wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt...