Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge addressed them: "There is only one way in modern civilization ... to avoid the constant interposition of Government into practically all the affairs of the people and that is for the people to adopt a correct course of action. ... If they do not want government through public action, they must provide it through private action...
...Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself is an anachronism in the twentieth century, and he must either adopt the habits and customs of the times or suffer extinction...
...Harvard there never has been the classical thirst for knowledge so vital to the success of such a system. The American mind is at present not scholarly but business-like. It would be quite impossible to adopt the Oxford system without modification...
Furthermore, those Italians who have learned the language of their adopted country must in duty adopt the customs of that country, of which oaths and abjurations, are no less important than sober garments instead of gaudy scarf's. The Italian wanderer from his dative health must also keep his hand in, by liberal excursions into doubtful proprieties of speech, or he will not be able to make himself understood when he gets back home...
...victim, it might at first thought be suggested that this University offer him aid and comfort; but the suggestion dies in dread of the result of furnishing refuge to all Yale men who desire to marry. On second thought sympathy gives way to apprehension, lest the University itself adopt rules similar to the one just enforced in New Haven. Next term's Regulations might include such clauses as: "Undergraduates announcing their engagements shall be placed on probation", or "No man shall be eligible for the Deans' List until he has taken a vow of celibacy...