1.   The college takes the view that smoking in the workplace is a fire risk.

2.   The university provides some libraries, laboratories, and other facilities, but the colleges take primary responsibility for the teaching and well-being of their students.

3.   Somerville college takes men from next year.

4.   And colleges take a dim view of students who apply for an early decision to more than one school.

5.   At the same time, other colleges are taking need into account where they previously had not, rejecting some poorer borderline applicants in favor of better-off ones.

6.   Across the country, colleges are taking similar steps in response to grade inflation.

7.   But unlike profit-seeking businesses, colleges do not take excess demand as a signal to expand.

8.   Do so few colleges take the moral high ground to suggest the athletic landscape cannot be changed because too many schools would cheat?

9.   Even so, the decline in the pace of price increases hints at the efforts colleges are taking to survive in a cutthroat market.

10.   For years, the college has generally taken a hands-off approach, reasoning that fraternities are private, off-campus residences.