Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduate of Harvard in the class of 1876, Professor Peirce studied in Germany for four years, returning then to this country and accepting a position as teacher in the Boston Latin School. In 1881 he undertook his work as teacher in mathematics and physics at the University, becoming in 1888 Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. His total term of service here has been thirty-two years...
With substitutes in place of the three regulars who were resting, the University team undertook a detailed study of defensive formations designed to stop Yale. The eleven also rehearsed some offensive plays, run by the team in the new order. Because of the fact that the shift of day before yesterday was only a change of position for all but one of the players, and did not involve men strange to the team, the new combination ran smoothly. As a machine for energetic use in a hard battle, however, the new order of things is still an unknown quantity...
...most productive a knowledge of what Harvard has to offer the sub-Freshman. Similar booklets are now published by other colleges and it was to enable the schoolboy in the West and south to have all the evidence before him when he made his choice that the Federation undertook the publication of this present book...
When the football training tables were about to start last fall, the Athletic Association thinking that the Varsity Club's charge for meals was too high, undertook to manage the tables itself. This has been the arrangement throughout the year. Dissatisfaction has been expressed by the captains of the teams at various times, and on Saturday active steps were taken in the matter, because the men who have been eating at the tables have been unable to keep in good condition and have, in some cases, entered contests unfitted to do their best. The trouble has evidently not been with...
...became instructor in pharmacology at the Medical School and wrote several papers in English and German on bacteriological subjects. In entering on his research and experimentation regarding the "gas" bacillus he knew he was risking his life. But he cheerfully undertook this work for the benefit of humanity, and even after inoculation, enthusiastically studied the progress of the disease in his own body, thus adorning the history of medicine with one more instance of unselfish bravery...