Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard cup, it was decided to have a standard for it to be inscribed suitably for each new winner during the time of tour. Inter-Collegiate records are to stand alone as records in future. An offer of the Manhattan Athletic Club grounds was considered, and will probably be adopted by the executive committee. The last Saturday in May was selected for the annual games of the association. Messrs. Faries and Mapes were elected as delegates to the National Association of Amateur Athletics. It was decided to adopt the rules of the national association so far as they...
...custom of having college organizations furnish music at the winter meetings is rapidly growing in popularity. Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale have all adopted this plan, and the brass bands of those colleges are taking measures to make its execution successful. We have a band that can undoubtedly vie with that of any other college; why, then, should we not adopt this plan also? It certainly would be a very enjoyable feature, and would add much to the pleasure of the meetings. We hear from our brass band only too seldom. It is true that...
...That we form a constitution and adopt playing rules which shall, if possible, eliminate features calculated to cause unnecessary and undesirable complications and discussions...
Yale is to day agitating the question whether her chapel pulpit shall be occupied permanently by one man, or whether she shall adopt the system in vogue at Harvard, - of having eminent ministers from the neighboring cities, preach each Sunday. This discussion turns our attention to an advantage we are enabled to enjoy, which, however, too few men seem to appreciate. When we consider the great pains Prof. Peabody takes in this matter of supplying the chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people...
...poet, we can only deplore them and wish that the misunderstanding had not occurred, and that it may even now be smoothed over, without permanent ill-feeling. We trust that the Princeton Alumni who are supporting so vigorously - as 'tis said - their president in his mistaken quarrel, will adopt as moderate and pacific a tone as the Harvard Alumni, and devote their energies not to fomenting, but to allaying the strife...