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...desperation the council called in Maitre Jevain, prominent attorney of Dijon. After much thought Maitre Jevain opined as follows: "The Government lists a category of domestic animals under the generic title of horned beasts. Does not the snail conform to that definition...
Such a course will often not be voluntary for the student: an average Freshman, especially if he leans toward a technical field, is too anxious to finish studying, and start work. It is true that the Engineering School must always be an undergraduate school to conform to the terms of the McKay bequest. Since this is so, and the corridor must exist, let it be as narrow as possible, so that few, if any, can enter. Not many engineers would regret having spent two extra years in obtaining a broader education of this sort...
...Well, I haven't had any alcohol yet but we shall conform to the laws of the country in which we live, not the country in which it is absolutely impossible to get a drink...
...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...