Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year about 20 men obtained permission to adopt tumbling as their winter recreation. Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...
...suspicion that Britain and France had concluded a formal entente. Briand's postscript : "Whatever the result, even should our hopes prove illusory, the two Governments would none the less be under the urgent obligation to act in concert either to ensure success by other means or to adopt a common policy so as to deal with the difficulties which would inevitably arise...
Attention is drawn elsewhere in these columns to the effort recently Instituted at Columbia to adopt higher education to varying life programs. As outlined by Dean Herbert D. Hawkes, the plan seems designed to remedy such defects as have been found by many, in the plan of study which Harvard has developed of recent years. his so far as this may be true, it will be well for Harvard men to keep their eyes turned towards Columbia. It may well be that President Butler is right and that in endeavoring to arouse undergraduate interest in intellectual activity, Harvard has erred...
Contrary, to the rumor current last season that the University Band was going to adopt a new uniform. It was announced yesterday that the traditional costume consisting of crimson sweater, and sailor caps would be preserved. The Alumni advisor committee for the Band objected to a change of regalia when proposed some time ago and their decision has since influenced the officers of the organization against innovations in this respect. The drum major, however, will wear a crimson coat this fall in place of the customary sweater in order more conveniently to carry his signalling pistol and similar paraphernalia...
...finally let TIME adopt a more gentlemanly tone toward women, and especially toward ladies...