Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow, and lived to flourish in the Harvard of today...
...affect deafness or stony inattention when an outsider utters a word or question relevant to the subject. If the reference or question is pressed, the initiate displays either irritation or chilling dignity and often moves away, leaving spectators either amused or awed that any rites and mysteries can so bind civilized...
...been one of the finest traditions at New Haven, none the less finer because of its dissimilarity from those at Harvard which would little emphasize solidarity in the social sense. To the alien ear it has a rather false ring. For fraternity systems which assumes such ramifications as to bind a college into a social unit usually stifle...
...Freshmen who are looking forward to business careers are most strongly urged to come. Attendance at the meeting will in no way bind a man to enter the competition, nor will anyone be at a disadvantage by thus entering a day late...
...watered with so much care; we would not wish you to think that the United States are becoming ungrateful to a country which has rendered them a great service and which can always give them support against their enemies. It is the interest of both powers to bind closer and closer the ties which unite them...