Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapid development of the game in this country has covered a much shorter term, and the styles of play in the two countries have become very different. The visit of the Oxford-Cambridge team gave us a chance to note the two different styles of play, and to adopt or pass by any features which may or may not appeal to the American experts
This democratic project sponsored by undergraduates is not as new as it might appear. President Lowell and many graduates have contemplated it for many years. An equally large group of Yale graduates have often suggested that we adopt the English system. Here, however, with a less diversified student body, and division into College. Common Freshman Year Sheffild Scientific School, and with our daily chapel and our prospering Yale Dining Hall, with an open-house fraternity system, et al, we have not yet reached the state turn here eyes eastward. Yale News, April...
...usual American college education. And he is no doubt right. For the usual American education according to his connotation is not either adequate or honest. Men long versed in the knowledge that half truths are more profitable than whole truths teach the youth of the country to adopt the half truths and smile...
...logic of this precaution is elusive, but its inconvenience is inescapable. The residents of the northwest corner of the Yard are forced to detour, and like all detours the one which they adopt is rough going. It lies through the shrubbery between Lionel and Harvard. The partially secluded character of this corner and a somewhat diffident view of human nature may be the explanation of this locking of the twelfth gate, but such reasoning surely is not well-grounded or if so its application elsewhere is owed to consistency. "What boots it at one gate to make defense...
...wish to re-adopt the old rule of returning the ball after an incomplete pass to the spot from which it was passed. The penalty was too great. The late rule of returning the ball to the line of scrimmage encouraged promiscuous passing. These were the facts considered by the Committee in adopting this new ruling...