Word: according
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...fitting students to be practicing lawyers, and in addition the advocates of this new plan would have taught at the Law School the theory of law in its highest ranges, as is done in the finest universities of Europe. This expansion and extension of instruction is directly in accord with the universal desire at Columbia of raising its standards until the university is on a plane with the best, in this country and abroad...
...Hence voters cannot afford to be independent of parties and to change their party vote on single issues. a. If they ever believed in the general principles of their old party they are unlikely to find themselves in as full accord with its opponents, though heartily with them in some particular. b. They loose their political influence by exerting it in too many directions. c. They eventually gain the enmity of both parties and are tolerated only in the times of necessity. d. They way to reform a party is to stay in it and help it to correct...
...Editorial" urges the substitution of unannounced for announced hour examinations, on the ground that the latter "hamper seriously many students," while the former are "more nearly in accord with the 'quickening principle of opportunity with responsibility." "The Month" reviews the President's report and the endowments of the university...
...ruling is in perfect accord with the recognized ruling of parliamentary procedures-Cushing's Elem. of Parliamentary Law, S 261, $69, 370, 390, 404, 406; Crocker's Procedure, "Quorums;" Parl. Reg. XII. 461; May's Parl. Law, S273-278; Hatsell's Precedents 187; Jefferson's Manual, p. 189. 4 Elliot's Debates, pp. 117, 130; Madison's papers, p, 405; Public Opinion, February...
...George A. Goraon gave a sermon in Appleton chapel last night on a text from Acts 12, x. where Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. He said that the outside door of the prison which "opened of its own accord" may be likened to what men find hampering in their environments. Men think they cannot be temperate, pure, or good because their associations tend to make them intemperate, vicious or bad. These environments are really very easy to break through. A strong faith in a righteous purpose will prevail very quickly over these imaginary difficulties...