Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Cook was born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys...
...raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful citizenship, there must be among them great leaders and great teachers. This is precisely the opportunity and need which Atlanta University is living...
...Literature 27, Geology 7 and Zoology 12 were omitted, and examinations in Comparative Philology 2a and Slavic 2a were added. All examinations will begin at 9.15 o'clock except any that are announced for 2 o'clock, and must not extend over three hours. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatsoever. A student who is not present within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without...
...resignation of Barrett Wendell '77 as Professor of English was received and accepted at a meeting of the President and Fellows last Monday. In accordance with a vote of the Board of Overseers Professor Wendell was appointed Professor of English, emeritus. His resignation will take effect in September...
...undergraduates except those entered before 1910 must pass before the end of their second year a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons, beginning Wednesday, January 17. All candidates who wish to take an oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing on or before next Saturday...