Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire institution into a graduate school at the present time were it not for the McKay bequest with its provision that the "instruction provided be kept accessible to students who have had not other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford". In order to conform to the will undergraduates must obviously be admitted. The school, moreover, derives the greater part of its income from this bequest which, when it is entirely in University hands (ca. 1956), will amount to about twenty-three million dollars...
...failure of the dry representatives to conform to this change of heart must be attributed to the incurable timidity of the political mind. Having once gone on record in favor of Prohibition, most of them lack courage to recognize the inevitable, and they take comfort in the hope that economic issues will over-shadow all others in the coming elections. Possibly the more realistic among them, hearing the applause for the wets which burst from the gallery, felt a less purblind confidence in the issue. The hedgers and straddlers of a dead decade are now once more on the fence...
...although the suggestion is sound, it does not conform to the necessary requirements. It promises to excite Japan; it will require definite compromising action. Just as the plan for economic boycott is fading into the gloom of backchamber negotiations and selfish nationalism, Mr. Stimson's clarion call to action is destined to be but whistling in the wind...
...Hutchins is, as we see it, attempting to make a college education conform more nearly to the conditions which will be encountered after graduation. The student is being permitted to enter the school on recommendation, and he will be likely to obtain his position after graduation on recommendation. He is on his own while in college, but if he fails to do his work the consequences must be suffered. Likewise the business world demands the accomplishment of the task, not mere formalities which are met along the way. --Daily Illini...
...Cambridge fire station, to be erected on the plot of land between Memorial Hall and the Yard, will be of Colonial Georgian architecture, to conform with the Harvard buildings, according to information received yesterday. A preliminary appropriation has been made by the city council, and an architect will be appointed shortly, Mayor R. M. Russell '14 also stated. Work on the demolition of the Rogers Building, which now occupies this land, will begin as soon as plans are completed and construction of the station will be started during the present academic year...