Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stress our literature is to add more courses to the college curriculum, but since no authority like Mr. De Voto flourishes in the English Department, and perhaps not one in the country whom Harvard could adopt into its colorless brood, this suggests the improbable. A similar alternative, not to be regarded as final, is to improve as much as possible the existing courses. Toward the accomplishment of this the heads of English 7 are making a definite move...
...resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move up to John Lewis, shouldering off on him the blame if Labor should be split. A committee headed by the Railway Clerks' George M. Harrison set to work...
Wooden goal posts will remain on Soldiers Field, despite Yale's decision to adopt collapsible steel posts, according to the H.A.A...
...relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator Tugwell was last week jockeying strenuously to get his emergency agency incorporated in the Department of Agriculture, where he could expect solid permanence, ample appropriations. But Secretary Wallace was known to be reluctant to adopt this controversial foundling, and a group of onetime AAAdministrator Chester Davis' friends was actively opposing the move...
There are many undergraduates who rebel at the appalling waste of time which is enforced by a custom of long years' standing. Toward these men the college authorities should adopt an encouraging attitude, instead of opposing them by such regulation as the extra course rule. Why should a man have an extra course piled on him simply because he tries to cover the work in less time than his less energetic classmates...