Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...medal given by the Cobden Club at Williams is awarded on the basis of excellence in recitation, and now they are trying to adopt Harvard's plan and make it a prize for the best essay on the subject of free trade or political economy...
...block game successfully in the Harvard match of Nov. 18, and Yale indulged in foul tackling at the match of the 25th, the rules in both instances failing to check these objectionable features. The fact is, our colleges will never play a legitimate foot-ball game until they adopt a code of rules similar to those of the London Foot-ball Association. The existing rules tend to make the college game a mere wrestling match between elevens, instead of individuals, in which weight and muscle have greater influence on the result than strategic skill. This shows faulty construction...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...
...What I would advocate is a careful revision of the rules in all intercollegiate contests in which Yale takes part, so as to exclude all manifestations of "Yaleism." For instance, since Yale takes advantage of the rule requiring three warnings to send a man from the foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment, or, in other words, they could not make two fouls without being disqualified. Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous...
...Harvard University, and the admission of women to lectures and recitations on equal terms with men. Indeed it seems very possible as an ultimate result following in the line of progress that Harvard may in the course of time be forced to yield to the pressure from without, and adopt this reform. That such an event is in the near future we do not believe, and it is possible that the "sweet reasonableness of waiting" for this change may, after all, find itself in the pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That...