Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement last night that the Corporation and the Board of Overseers have approved a plan to put the further continuance of these midyear examinations at the discretion of the various departments or committees in charge of the concentration fields. Students registered in the departments or divisions which adopt the new plan with regard to General Examinations will thus be prevented form graduating in three and a half years...
...benefit of those members of the class of 1928 who intend to take their degrees next February. Although none of the other departments have yet considered the matter of changing the present system of two sets of General Examinations each year, it is probable that most of them will adopt the new plan within the next few years...
...sees no more in the law of poetry than the artificial and arbitrary rules of the game which we adopt as unnecessary limits that we may in the end better express ourselves; he seems to imply that we might just as well have adopted an entirely different set of rules. And he has missed Pascal altogether. We suspect that he has substituted a psychology for its more ultimate. Indeed, he says it best himself: "The affairs of the world interest me only as they relate to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect...
...went up at Budapest last week when Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen of Hungary returned from two weeks spent visiting Signor Mussolini at Rome and said: "My Government will undertake in the immediate future a thorough study of the Fascist system, especially its social aspects. . . . We shall then adopt those Fascist reforms which have been tested and found practicable...
This action on the part of Mr. Lowell is concrete evidence that the University refuses to adopt a purely defensive attitude and thereby shoulder the entire burden of guilt. The request demonstrates a relentless vigilance and a plea for impartiality; its sincerity is unquestionable and its motivation praiseworthy...