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...student accustomed to the easy-going, good-hearted manners of the Biological laboratories is near prostration at his first glimpse of the inner workings in the domain of chemistry. He has lived from hand to mouth, intellectually speaking, and is suddenly forced to conform to rule in every breath he takes. This tends to destroy the precious faculty of indifference and is discouraging. But an even worse effect of the department's callousness is the harm it does to what the undergraduate regards as "academic leisure": instead of being delightfully at his ease, the student of chemistry is made...
...than he when on the fourth attempt he won last November. As the first Democratic governor in 16 years, he recommended to the Democratic Legislature a combined sales and gross income tax, old age pensions, direct relief for jobless and a change in the local Dry enforcement law to conform with the November repeal of state constitutional Prohibition. Every year he goes hunting, kills his buck...
...intelligent examination--such as the Cambridge Tripos in English--and until we provide examinations which demand and measure intelligent work, tutors will continue either to cram their students or, as the case may be, to struggle against catering to the student's practical needs in an effort to conform to a highly unsatisfactory system...
...efforts of several authors, or have been hacked piecemeal by the rewrite-men. The "character conflicts" are arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties and fine touches are deleted in a surpassingly stupid manner. This was only too painfully obvious to those who saw the screen version of "An American Tragedy" or who watched the final scene in the Hollywood conception of "A Farewell to Arms...
...government consciously dedicated to a faith in the inviolable sanctity of the individual human spirit. . . . We have builded a system of individualism. . . . The background of our American system is that we should allow free play of social and economic forces. . . . Social and economic solutions will not avail unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs...