Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Committee at a meeting held in New York on Saturday made several final amendments to the rules, the most important of which was the limitation of the time of the game to two 30-minute halves. Further changes in the rules were made but nothing was done towards the adoption of any of the changes suggested at previous sessions, and another meeting will be held on March 30 to ratify and adopt these changes...
...contemptuous interest--are frequently met with. The former, attitude, characteristic of blase travellers in pursuit of novel experiences, is directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness which causes them to apply to foreign religions the comparatively local and conventional standards of the West. We will find that in many cases the Oriental secretiveness so often complained...
...National Football Rules Committee will meet at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, this evening instead of at New York as previously planned. Proposed changes in the rules will be considered and a code drawn up for 1906. There will probably be some changes made eventually, but the committee will not adopt any extreme measures...
...Memorial Hall last evening it was decided by a vote of 539 to 64 to adopt the plan to allow ladies to be invited to a table d'hote dinner on November 25, the day of the Yale football game...
...debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared. At the same time, expenses of all kinds are going steadily up, and there is no end to them in sight. Some of these expenses I have enumerated in a previous letter. It also became necessary to adopt some settled policy in regard to the minor sports, as their number was increasing (three new ones have come into existence this year) and experience has shown that the money assistance granted to them in a somewhat haphazard fashion was growing rapidly in amount...