Word: committed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...serious faults may be found in the system of instruction in French at Harvard. In the first instance, the student is obliged to commit to memory an excessive amount of selections that are neither profitable nor interesting. In every French course we find some such task set, the merit of which is extremely dubious. The reason given is that by these means a knowledge of the language may be ingrained in the memory and the mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with...
...field, after two of Harvard's team were knocked up, and their places taken by substitutes, they were mean enough to say it was "luck," and "they played as good a game as we did." For my part, I could not see that their rushers did any thing but commit a series of brutal assaults upon our men, who are deserving of great credit for the plucky manner in which they withstood the unwarranted attacks...
...gentlemen who have undertaken the actors' parts met at Professor White's house, yesterday evening, for a preliminary reading, in order to get the pronunciation in good form, before beginning to commit their parts. Hereafter they are expected to learn a definite number of lines each day, until they know their parts...
...during the past years have done so much towards the honor of the College. Our Nine, however, are deserving of praise for the steady game which they played throughout. In spite of the fact that the score stood at one time seventeen to nothing, the Nine did not commit the fatal blunder of losing their presence of mind, but worked away till they had obtained the four runs which saved the defeat from being a disgrace. This week the Nine seem to have discovered that hard work at practice is the only means of salvation...