Word: adopt
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...system without changing it. The actual process by which slavery was in the end overthrown was in fact quite foreign to the purposes of the avowed abolitionists. They contributed to the result only by exciting the North, not by devising any plan of action and getting the North to adopt...
Owing to the practice of transferring H. A. A. membership tickets, which has gone on at the different games this season, especially in the Carlisle Indian game and in the game with Pennsylvania it has become necessary to adopt stringent measures to put a stop to this evil...
...getting down the field on kicks and the inability of the guards to open up holes for centre plays. All the line men run and tackle too high, and the chief reason why the team is weak on the defense is that the men do not adopt a low enough position...
...Peabody spoke of the need today of aggressiveness in our religious life. Many men adopt a negative view of religion, avoiding evil and slipping through their daily existence in a neutral way. This is better than positive sin, no doubt, but it is a poor way of living. The need of good men in the world is greater now than ever before, and surely they ought to be found in such an institution as this where men come to develop and broaden their ideas and their field of usefulness...
...Athletic Committee has not yet decided to adopt the system of $5.00 H. A. A. membership tickets, which was tried last spring, and which provided that the holder should be admitted to all athletic contests and to all boat house priveleges at either the Weld on the Newell. If the plan is adopted later, the football season tickets will be received in exchange for the H. A. A. tickets at their face value...