Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...European nations will, by Japan's victory, be permanently restrained from mutual encroachments: forum, XVIII, 9 (Sept. 1894). - (a) Corea will receive a strong internal government. - (1) Thus preventing Russia's advance from the preventing Russia's advance from the north. - (b) China will adopt a progressive government. - (1) Thus checking advance of France and England from the South: Forum, XVIII, 9 (Sept...
...Should Boston adopt a system of underground or of elevated transit...
...meeting of the board of directors of the Dining Association held yesterday it was voted to adopt the plan of the Corporation for seating the hall. This plan provides for a club table system throughout the hall, the number of members of each club being one half more than the number of seats. The blank applications for membership will probably be issued before tonight...
...whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration of men destined to devote their whole future to scholarship, science, philosophy, criticism, or art, and of students laying serious foundations of lifelong...
...expected to erect a second hall, if, that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem. The students have strength in their position. The Corporation would not be right in persistently pursuing a do-nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement at Memorial, the Corporation owe it to them, in that case, to make clear that such arrangement is urged in order to make feasible a second hall and not simply for its own sake, leaving the second hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly...