Word: bindingly
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...observe through false modesty or laziness. The question, of course, arises whether caps and gowns in themselves establish a speaking acquaintance between the wearers, and we believe the answer of former classes has wisely been in the affirmative. Certainly their use could serve no better purpose than to bind classmates more closely together during the last few weeks of College...
...Frenchmen take an eager interest in their relatives, and even in the families of their friends, an attitude which differs widely from the one common in England and this country. Their spontaneous intensity and unity of family feeling is founded on a recognition of the laws of nature which bind irrevocably parents and children...
...undergraduate members of the Society, with the approval of certain graduates, have signed this agreement, but their signatures I have refrained from seeing because my personal agreement cannot bind either the Faculty or the undergraduates. I hope, however, that both bodies will accept this solution. It has been adopted only after the most careful consideration by other officers of the University, by graduates, and by undergraduates, united in their love for their College, and their desire to secure her well being...
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...years went on, there arose the need of more compact church organism; for the early spiritual ardor was growing less, and strong authority was necessary to bind together the Christian church. The superintendence of the church's alms, the regulation of the confused church service, the need for some authoritative tribunal to exercise spiritual jurisdiction--all called imperatively for a more firmly established system. In response to these needs of the time, the clerical order did become more firmly established, and in the writings of Clement of Rome, within a generation after the death of Paul, is first prescribed...