Word: took
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After intermission, a rejuvenated Crimson promptly took the lead, only to exchange it several times before running up a 45-39 margin just before the quarter. Four foul shots and a tip-in brought the Huskies to a 48-47 lead...
...varsity's Tom Blodgett was the only double winner. He tied Harvard indoor, Briggs Cage, and meet standards with a 13 ft., 6 in. effort in the pole vault, but this was perhaps not his most impressive feat. He also took the measure of Terrier Art Reed, the New England champion, in the hurdles, with a good time...
...content with that alone. Lowell immediately went on to further academic reform. Within a year the College had adopted his plan for concentration and distribution, which took first effect with the Class of 1914. Under President Eliot, any student who had successfully completed 16 courses was eligible for the degree. The free elective system imposed no limitations whatsoever upon the choice of courses or their relevance to each other, so that any student who could "cram and pass" 16 times in succession was graduated. Although Lowell had vigorously and consistently attacked the system while Eliot was still in office, nothing...
Since no undergraduate department would take him up on the idea of general examinations. Lowell turned to the graduate schools. The Medical School was the first to think favorably of his plan and accordingly, in 1911, the graduating class there took the first compulsory generals in University history. The next year the Divinity School followed suit, and two years later, convinced by enthusiastic reports from the two graduate schools, the undergraduate department of History, Government, and Economics began to require generals. Within ten years, President Lowell was able to report with evident satisfaction that all departments except Chemistry and Engineering...
More so than many of his colleagues, Lowell was disturbed by the student housing situation which prevailed when he took office in 1909. Because the enrollment had increased faster than the College's physical facilities, many students were unable to live in College housing. Those who did were little better off than the others, for the College rooms were poorly kept up and equipped with marginal facilities...