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...revised standard version" my primary reaction was that for the sake of consistency the veritas in the University seal should be changed to truth, spaced: (TR-UT-H). The "H" could then be enlarged to represent the varsity letter, ad the base of the shield consequently squared off to conform with the shape of the paper (and the wit of the administration). With this further revision the Veritas Committee itself would thus be assured that there will no longer be any foreign language in our official dialect...
...First Gropius Lecture; "Constancy, Time, and Architecture," Siegfriend Gledion, visiting lecturer on Architecture, demanded that the lectures "be set in a wider context" than architecture in order to conform to "the deeply humanistic outlook" of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, Emeritus. He proceeded to demonstrate the inadequacies of a contemporary architecture of "coziness" in view of the eternal non-rational in human nature...
...Birch Society Sir: Thank God for the "lunatic fringe!" I was beginning to think our patriotic heroes of the past had spilled their blood in vain-heroes who died to preserve America only to have today's soft, confused population surrender, compromise, conform and wishful-think it all away! Your article, "The Americanists," has restored my faith in the American people once more. How do I go about joining the John Birch Society...
...after school the children are marshaled in youth battalions and kept too busy to think anything but what they are told to think. To gain its end. the state plays ruthlessly upon the natural ambitions of the young: boys and girls are warned that if they do not conform they will be denied admission to college...
...question of oral vs. written exams the instructors were not in complete unanimity. The staff decided however, to give a two-hour exam in the reading period with general questions composed by all the tutors. Each tutor may them choose certain questions or reword them to make them conform to the aims of his particular tutorial...