Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recitations, or acts of impudent meddling, such as reprimanding students who have thought proper to get drunk-will become fewer and fewer. The professors will come to understand that the students require nothing of them except that they shall not interfere with the students, and so soon as they adopt those course the relations between the faculty and the undergraduates will become harmonious. Nothing can be done, however, while the professors are tyrannically treated, for manly and courteous conduct cannot be expected from those whose self-respect is outraged, and who are daily made to feel that in the eyes...
...University Lacrosse Twelve is to adopt a new uniform this spring. The old jerseys and stockings with their black and red stripes, are to be replaced by crimson jerseys and stockings. On the left breast of the new jerseys will be embroidered the coat-of-arms of the college, as is the custom of Canadian teams. The new uniform will have black knee breeches. In this much-improved costume the team will present a far more attractive appearance than in their old uniform...
...James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree...
...referee, a decision which gave general satisfaction to the spectators and which resulted at the next meeting in a much better exhibition of sparring than would otherwise have been seen. We hope that the authorities of the Athletic Association will reflect upon this matter, and should they decide to adopt our suggestion we can assure them that they will be warmly supported in their decision by the general opinion of the college and by all lovers of fair play. Should it on any account not be desirable to have the matches finished at the meetings attended by the fair...
...able to guide the faculties of other colleges into the system of regulations which were inaugurated by them, the students of this university can add much useful knowledge and ability to any convention called to discuss this matter. Harvard has always been the first or among the first to adopt any kind of athletic game or contest suitable for student recreation and, at present, her range of such sports is much larger than is enjoyed at most of the colleges in this country. After such a thorough discussion as took place on the question of the "regulations" among our students...