Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Junior class was held on Monday evening to adopt some plan for defraying a still outstanding debt of between three and four hundred dollars, incurred by the class crew. It was unanimously decided to raise the necessary funds by subscription, the subscribed amounts to be paid in monthly instalments for the three remaining months of the term, or until the debt is paid...
...Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves interested in any subject, instead of investigating it by ourselves...
...class lives would be most apt to be looked up are the very men who treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims of misplaced confidence. If the present graduating class should give up the old plan and adopt one similar to that proposed, its class-book might contain considerable valuable data, and not be a treasury of trash and nonsense...
...RUMOR is abroad that a second meeting of the Senior class may be called some time in the coming week. If such a meeting is held, it is commonly supposed that the class will have to adopt one of the alternatives, - either to merely fill the vacancies which have been made by resignations, or to annul the action of the last meeting in toto, and proceed to a new election...
...asked his advice, the advice was to this effect: to do one of two things, either burn the book or throw it into the North River. If some kind friend had overlooked "Student Life at Harvard," the advanced sheets of which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will be satisfied with the picture is an exceedingly difficult task. Four years is our generation, and no two generations...