Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...
...Professor Kirsopp Lake, in English 35a, a half course in the Old Testament. At the first meeting of his class yesterday he announced that, since he had found differences of opinion as to how much the final examination should count towards the grade for the course, he would adopt two systems of marking. In one, the final examination alone will determine the grade, and in the other the hour examination and the occasional quizzes will count heavily in the final reckoning. At the beginning of the course each student will be required to choose the system of marking he prefers...
...Resolutions calling upon the nations to adopt women police forces in order to stamp out white slave traffic were adopted...
...very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges . . . Where these units exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting it for some years to come...
...custom of "adoption" is an honor invented by the Bolsheviki to replace the Tsarist method of making distinguished persons honorary officers in the Navy or Army. The main difference in the Bolshevik idea is that Government departments adopt a regiment or a warship. The Foreign Office recently adopted a regiment, but M. Georges Tchicherin (Foreign Minister) did not become a colonel; he became an honorary private...