Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be a meeting to organize the new University Debating Club this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Seniors and Juniors and members of any of the graduate departments of the University are invited to become active members. The main business of the meeting will be to adopt a constitution and elect officers...
...Brooks, Thomas and DuVa of Yale. It was decided to amend the constitution in such a way that the committee shall have no power in deciding eligibility questions, as that matter is now adequately covered by the new Harvard-Yale agreement. It was also decided that the committee should adopt in full, both now and in the future, the actual track and field rules and arrangements of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, except as regards the matter of officials. The officials for the dual meet for this year were appointed and will be announced later this week...
...wide discussion and investigation of the general opinion on the subject. This set is modelled on the suggestion made in the CRIMSON last Friday, with a few modifications which have been generally desired. The purpose of bringing this subject up is to enable the class of 1906 to adopt a good reform and hand it down as a custom to future classes. The rules follow...
...results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons for this is, I believe, that we do not accustom ourselves to using the machinery which would make reforms easily attainable...
...ought to find some way to improve a system which is subject to two such serious objections. The Freshman class ought to consider the matter very carefully. Why would it not be a great change for the better if the class of 1906 should adopt a constitution previous to their class election which should provide that no man elected to office before the third annual meeting of the class should be eligible for re-election at the expiration of his term. This would bring the class to its Senior election with a variety of candidates more or less trained...