Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expected that each of the other colleges that has co-operated with Harvard in her movement against professionalism will soon adopt regulations similar to those adopted at Harvard by the faculty committee on athletics...
...view, and that the rowing of the race; and by not keeping his crew in control, and by yielding to the excitement of the moment, and so forgetting their object, the graduates claim that he laid himself open to their censure. How many men among undergraduates will finally adopt this view remains to be seen, but the graduates' note, it is believed, has settled outside opinion once...
...system of handicapping, or, more properly, of barring out, which the officers of the Harvard Athletic Association propose to adopt in a limited number of events in the coming fall athletic meeting, offers exceptional inducements for men desiring to compete yet fearing the overwhelming odds of defeat, to enter themselves for these events. If Harvard is to maintain her supremacy in general athletics for the future, it is certainly necessary, in view of the large athletic loss that the college sustained in the departure of the class of '82, that a large number of new entries be made this fall...
Niagara Seminary are about to adopt a college color...
...back to its own lines will still, however, be put at a great disadvantage, since the safety touch-down rule is imperative and punt-overs in such a case will be extremely difficult, and consequently hazardous. It will be interesting to notice the shifts which the different teams will adopt next fall to get out of such a dangerous position...