Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...probable that the Steward will adopt the suggestion published in the Magenta just after the assignment of rooms...
...besides this sort of instruction which would be the delight of the delicate, and the passe-temps of the indolent and the rich, as letters were at Rome, there should be other courses of study. When a government takes upon itself the national education of a people, it should adopt some system allowing full scope to diverse aptitudes, and should try to give satisfaction to all tastes. Above all, it should guard against giving instruction of a too recondite nature, too little adapted to practical things...
...Natural History at Penikese number nearly 150, though not more than a third of that number can possibly be admitted. The necessary buildings have been erected, but there is very little money left to carry on the institution; it is to be earnestly hoped that many States will adopt the proposition to provide for the maintenance of two pupils by a grant of $ 5000 or an annual subscription of $ 350. The school is to be open from July 7 to August 29. The corps of instructors numbers about a dozen...
...information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should not be taken up by senseless questionings. Overwork was perhaps the cause of his death. After his last lecture at Fitchburg he seemed completely exhausted, and wrote to discontinue some of his engagements; but he did not adopt this measure soon enough to give his system the rest it needed...
...mentioned. And for this it is not the government of our colleges which is mainly responsible. Could the thousand young men now studying at Cambridge be placed in business or other occupation, apart from old friends and old restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope...