Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last on an organized basis which bids fair to alleviate the situation in a practical manner. Until we have so many courts that there is no danger of over-crowding,--and such a state of affairs were as uneconomic as it is unlikely--we need some plan to adjust the supply and demand on a scientific basis. It is to be hoped that by intelligent co-operation the users of the courts will make the effort to adjust the minimum of supply to the demand a success...
...Dante was a man of philosophic accu- men and elastic thought." From a thoughtful point of view, he constructed his "Inferno" so as to classify the various sins according to their relative baseness and to adjust the penalties with suitability to the sins. Dante's "Inferno" is like an inverted funnel, consisting of concentric circles. The first four circles are occupied by sinners through impulse--lust, gluttony, greed. The fifth circle--the "circle of transition" is occupied by malcontents. The rest of the way to the city of Dis is people by heretics, then by those who have been false...
...Little '10 urged activity without cessation. Professor Bliss Perry, who spoke last on behalf of the Faculty, emphasized the remarks of the previous men by saying that the problems of college life all resolve themselves into this, "for each one of you to adjust yourself to the college community." He particularly emphasized the importance of the inner spiritual life, a part of us that does not get expression in words. Whatever it is called by different sects, without it we are not men; we cannot live the peaceful, effective life expected of us. We must care for this side...