Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...light during the recent controversy. The football question has been met fairly and squarely, and the result cannot fail to be gratifying to all whose sympathies are with Harvard. The thanks of the university are due the Athletic committee for their energy and faithfulness in the work they undertook. But for them and their efforts, Harvard would very likely have never been, in the eyes of the public, so completely vindicated as she is today...
...month or more ago, certain members of the Glee Club kindly undertook to form a Glee Club from '92. Although a large number of freshmen sang before this committee, no result has yet been announced. If those who have the matter in hand intend to do nothing further, the freshmen themselves will form their club, but if the 'Varsity Club means to help '92, they should notify the successful candidates at once...
CHARLES DOWNER.PHILOSOPHY 2.- If the gentlemen who undertook the Memory-experiment, and who have not yet reported, will at once communicate to me their results (whether imperfect or complete), I shall be greatly obliged...
...some years since Professor Adler started on the career in which he is now proving himself so excellent a thinker and so valuable a man. Himself, the son of a learned rabbi, Professor Adler, as a very young man became strongly affected with atheistic tendencies and undertook after a course of very serious and extensive studies to spread his doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large congregation of eminently intelligent people in New York City. Whereas, it was his original ambition and aim to call into life a new religious order if atheists may properly...
Your correspondent undertook to learn the sentiments of those undergraduates who are making specialties of history and political science, with the following results: Thirty-four circulars were sent out, to which twenty-five answers were returned. Of these twenty-five none could be found friendly to coercion, twenty favored "home rule," and five were opposed...