Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weak a basis that it is necessary to form proselyting communities whereby to recruit her numbers? Can she not rely sufficiently upon the advantages which a course of study at New Haven presents above a course of study pursued elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated systems? Or must an attempt be made to overpersuade, through friendship and social ties formed at school, young and undecided students who are too frequently led "to join the majority?" It is not strange that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared...
...second class, the latter proved easy victors. This kind of playing must be stopped at once, and we believe Mr. Slocum means to stop it. Meanwhile all men who have given up trying for the eleven, ought to continue practising hard, for, unless three men in the rush line adopt a different style of playing, there ought to be three vacancies in the eleven very soon, - and these must be filled (or retained) by men who have shown themselves worthy to do so. The whole eleven, in fact, must brace, and brace very hard; but the flagrant cases ought...
...ball team, could not be present, and Mr. F. E. Reid took his place as a representative of the paper. Mr. W. H. Cowles, chairman, of the Yale News, acted for that paper, and Mr. W. T. Talbot, for the DAILY CRIMSON. After some discussion, it was decided to adopt no more formal constitution than the rules already formulated by the CRIMSON and sanctioned by the other papers...
...powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt the former...
...junior class at Cornell have decided to adopt the "mortar board" as a class hat, but with a distinctive colored tassel. Both of the upper classes having adopted these hats, the sophomores will wear the regulation tile and the freshmen the low black "cady." - Yale News...