Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denied it. For Owner Bostwick, who was honeymooning abroad, his friends protested bitterly. Nevertheless the stewards barred both horses from the track pending investigation. Turfman Joseph Early Widener* revealed last week what his Hialeah Park in Miami will do next season about the lately virulent dope evil. It will adopt the "dope-box," widely used in France and England, for examination of horses. Before each race is run the stewards draw by lot the number of one entry, keep it secret until the finish. Then that horse, no matter how he finished, is led to a special stall ("dope...
Under the recent vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Seniors who are candidates for honors may be excused from November hour examinations in courses within their field of concentration, provided that the Department under which the course is given decides to adopt the policy. Each department has been given authority to adopt a policy permitting its instructors to relieve Seniors who are candidates for honors from the November hours exams in courses within the student's field of concentration...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has again announced that Seniors who are candidates for honors will not be required to take hour exams in courses within their fields of concentration, "provided the department...decides to adopt that ruling." Invariably, confusion has resulted from the vagueness of this last clause. Because various departments have refused to commit themselves definitely, choosing rather to leave the matter up to the discretion of individual professors in each course, Seniors have cut exams unintentionally, taken others not required, and in general failed to derive proper benefit from their exemption...
...better aspects of the Japanese crawl, a modified and specialized form of the Australian crawl, will be used extensively by the Harvard swimming teams this winter," Coach Ulen said Saturday. In taking this action, Harvard will be the first Eastern college to adopt this style...
Coach Ulen stressed the point that every swimmer should not be required to adopt the Japanese style in its entirety. It would be foolish, he said, to try to change the style of men who are already excellent swimmers. It is only in improving the form of members of the squad that the Japanese crawl will be used. Although this style was originally adapted to the use of small men, it is agreed that taller swimmers can use it to equal advantage...