Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...certainly imperilled by this powerful combination of European despotisms. Can any one without a smile ask what is there now to be compared with this? Would England extend any "political system" to South america which could in any sense endanger "our peace and happiness?" When the last French Empire undertook to establish an empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack on the very existence of our government. We must not use our sharpest tools on every petty piece of work, or they will be dulled when we have...
DEAR SIRS:- Last year some Harvard students kindly undertook to teach classes of Italians at the North End and met with so much success that the directors of this work hope it may be continued this year...
...expressly understood, on the suggestion of the Harvard men, that no letter should be written by either side. The agreement was to be left exactly as if it had been brought about as the result of a perfectly friendly meeting between representatives of the two universities. The Harvard men undertook to get the assent of the requisite authorities to give it validity, and a game on November 9 or 16, on neutral college grounds, seemed almost a certainty. After a delay of about ten days information was received from one of the Harvard men that it would be necessary...
...Belgian, Austrian, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish and Italian athletes has been promised; the Germans and Swiss, not having been represented at the Congress, have not yet announced their intentions, but will no doubt participate ultimately. American athletics were represented at the Paris Congress by Professor Sloane of Princeton, who also undertook to persuade American athletes to attend the Athens meeting...
...will comply with the request of Captain Emmons and Dr. Brooks which was published in yesterday's CRIMSON. As it had been found impossible to finish a game called at four o'clock, the unusual privilege of beginning at half past three was granted the managers, who in return undertook to guarantee that no students having half past two recitations would cut them on account of the game. As the granting of similar favors in the future will be largely dependent on the result of the experiment today, it is all-important that no ground for complaint be given...