Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weather was considered too bad for the game, the game should have been forfeited and money telegraphed for or borrowed by the careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from...
...last Wednesday a university indignation meeting was held to adopt resolutions denouncing the act of pulling over the Silliman statue...
...ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented the alphabet and thus placed the whole world under obligation for all coming time...
THERE will be a meeting of the Exeter men in college to adopt a Constitution for the Harvard-Exeter Club in Sever 5, Thursday evening, February 28th, 1889, at 7.30 o'clock...
...BULLARD.THERE will be a meeting of the Exeter men in college to adopt a Constitution for the Harvard-Exeter Club in Sever 5, Thursday evening, February 28th, 1889, at 7.30 o'clock...