Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...these circumstances there appear but two resorts : either to make two sections for the hour on Wednesday and Friday, or to count private hours as regular ones. In the way of either proposition there are no serious difficulties, and it is hoped that the instructor will be able to adopt one or the other. An improvement could also be made on the present mode of supplying one's self with water for washing paint-brushes. Instead of letting each one bring a glass of water up three flights of stairs, a pail of water should be kept in the room...
...available for running expenses, and for salaries of tutors and professors in unendowed chairs, is smaller than it should be. It is this smallness of means which makes a liberal and liberal-minded treatment of professors almost an impossibility, and which has forced the government of the University to adopt what we have called the "Commercial Policy...
...Athletic Association, desiring to promote the interest in athletics, have decided to adopt for this year the plan of class meetings, to conclude with a championship meeting, thereby bringing together the best men in the University for each event...