Word: adopt
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...subject to be discussed in the competition for the Pasteur Medal this year will be: "Resolved, That the French Government should adopt an income tax in order to distribute more equitably the burden of taxation." The regulations governing this competition will be the same as last year. Instead of having a regular debate between two teams of three men each, as was done for several years, the competitors will speak individually on any phase of the general topic chosen. The trials will be held on Friday, December 3, in the Assembly Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock...
...Harvard:--The master of Emmanuel once put the sentiment of collegiate solidarity, the keynote of this occasion, into the form of the paradox, 'Let us stick together when we part.' In expressing the thanks of the Delegates for the most cordial welcome you have given us, may I not adopt these words in behalf of the Delegates from all parts of the world? 'We shall stick together when we part.' In whatever parts of the planet we may happen to meet, the first greeting for any two of us will be 'We were at Harvard together at the inauguration...
...meeting of the Senior class will be held on Monday, October 11, to adopt resolutions upon the death of Fabian Fall...
...that organization, and should do much to commend it to the student body and thus help to secure for it a high degree of efficiency. There is also a cordial word of welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat as president. There will be doubtless a general approval of the editorial plea for the study of poetry as literature; such study, the article properly adds, will not be open...
...indebtedness to the Union," be amended by inserting in place of these words the following: "The Trustees may at their discretion prohibit members from becoming indebted to the Union, or they may permit members to become indebted to the Union subject to such rules and regulations as they may adopt, and no member shall become indebted to the Union except in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the Trustees...