Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Neither of these two plans may seem adequate, but they are the best which, with the college's present resources, the faculty can find, and it is almost certain that the faculty will adopt one of them for next year. Those who favor the first plan are likely to say that the college can easily endure to begin work a half hour earlier in the warm months and to recite a half hour later in the winter months, and that under this arrangement a stated time, though it be short, will be set apart for the noon meal. Those...
...other sports. They have, therefore, taken a step to bring about such contests between the two colleges. Although it is not definitely settled that the plan will go through, there seems to be no present reason to doubt that it will be tried. The colleges will certainly adopt the plan if they consult their own wishes first...
...many long before it was introduced at Harvard, yet as it has received its most liberal development in this college, it can justly be called a Harvard institution. Western universities have been struck by Harvard's success and progress under the elective system and have been eager to adopt it as far as their resources would allow. The election of studies in the University of Minnesota is even more liberal than at Yale...
...actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more than than anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These men-and there are not a few of them-are anxious to take some popular reference book out over night. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the the missing volume. Some of these...
...officer which attends the court rooms daily, and by giving bail rescues "juvenile offenders" from a probation at Deer Island. A bureau of information is also established which sees that there are country homes ready, and takes charge of any cases that are reported. Sometimes families in the country adopt the children free of charge; but sometimes charges are made which the society has in a great measure to pay. $20,000 had to be paid out last year, and for this reason the society appeals for funds to all who feel at heart this responsibility of caring...