Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument recited a brief history of the founding of Andover Seminary and attempted to point out the fact that the Visitors Board was endowed with the widest possible powers, that they "were to guard over the trust in every way, to see that it should always be administratered in accord with the original Calvinist intent of the foundation." The Visitors felt, he explained, that this provision gave them power to prevent the union with the Harvard Divinity School which the trustees had arranged...
...Accord With Founders' Wishes...
...argument of incompatibility, which has weighed heavily in previous instances, is nothing in this case, for Dean Pound is thoroughly in accord with the temper of the administration. His work has received strong support. He has deserved well, and, for once, has not been slighted. But much remains to be done; the Law School is not halfway in its career, and it would be a serious misfortune for the driver to let drop the reins. While the presidency of a university is not a chair to be spurned lightly, the work which the dean has so effectively carried...
...mortifying, bitter truth that the quiet and close thinker in the White House, just elected President as the Republican nominee, is a better Democrat in many essentials, more in accord with the foundation principles of the Democratic Party, than many men who have obtained high and honorable places as ostensible Democrats...
...Moreover, history teaches us that it is dangerous to rattle your weapons even verbally. We have known instances where in a similar atmosphere, and quite unexpected by all parties, rifles and cannon have gone off somehow of their own accord...