Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Committee can only be applauded for its appreciation of the University's needs and its choice of means to meet them. This step may be a force in influencing the University administration to adopt an equally sane attitude toward athletics for all. The recent appointment of Mr. Bingham as Director of Athletics with a seat on the Faculty has given grounds for the hope that this attitude is already taking shape, that the day will come when athletics will be regarded as a department of the University on the same footing as the departments of History, Philosophy, and Fine...
Chang. Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War Lord of Manchuria," summoned his chief henchmen to Mukden early in the week, and caused them to adopt a resolution declaring that the three Manchurian provinces (Shenpking, Holung-kiang and Kirin) no longer recognize the authority of the so-called "Government of China" at Peking...
This history began with the foundation of Pomona College in 1888. A local population with New England antecedents made it possible for Pomona in the midst of the booming, expanding West, with the tenth largest city in the U. S. (today) close at hand, to adopt and maintain the characteristics of a "small college," like Amherst and Williams, Knox and Antioch. Intimacy, hospitality and the individuality of teacher and taught are prime among these characteristics When popularity and population pressure increased, Pomona firmly fixed 700 as its maximum enrollment figure. Rigid selection of entrants was enforced...
Count Volpi returned to the floor. Of the deputies, 224 voted to adopt the Italo-British settlement. One Communist Deputy voted contra populum. With unusual magnanimnity his Fascist peers forebore to assault...
When the student is once awakened, then more than ever he needs guidance by a mature mind. Then the services of professors as tutors become more than desirable. The Department of Mathematics, the most recent to adopt the tutorial system, has, in recognizing this problem, surpassed the other departments by providing that each professor shall also be a tutor. It is to be hoped that this provision will soon be universal. Only by such cooperation of tutors and professors will the tutorial system achieve its greatest usefulness...