Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with all to neglect no detail, to support the captain heart and soul so that the team may line up hereafter with the spirit of "win we must and will...
Every year Harvard graduates several men who adopt teaching as a profession, and in nearly every great institution in the country this University is represented by some instructor who received his degree here. There is one form of instruction, however, and a very important one, which Harvard graduates have not taken up, and by this we mean in struction in athletics. Within the past few years athletics have gradually come to be considered an essential part of a man's college training, and in most of the colleges regular athletic departments have been established. In order to fill the position...
...that each college should make and interpret its own rules. Each captain will be obliged, in making up the personnel of his team, to send to the other captain a signed statement to the effect that, to his knowledge, his men are all eligible. Princeton also agreed to adopt Harvard's rule as to dropped men, provided her athletic advisors would agree to it. The Princeton rules at present allow dropped but not conditioned students to play on teams...
...Saturday evening Mr. Henry L. Higginson and Mr. Wm. R. Thayer attended by invitation a meeting of the New York Harvard Club, and explained to its members the project for a University Club at Harvard. The meeting was very numerously attended, and it voted unanimously to adopt resolutions presented by Mr. Henry S. Van Duzer heartily to support the project and to appoint a committee of seven members of the New York Harvard Club to cooperate with the General Committee...
...Williams faculty has voted to adopt the honor system of regulating examinations which was recently proposed by the students. Williams will be the first New England college to adopt the system...