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Hastily the Harvard authorities explained that they had only wanted to make Dunster and Lowell Houses conform in the last detail with the Colonial type upon which they were planned. Trademarks, explained Harvard, were not used by locksmiths in Colonial days...
...there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which he is made to write in order to accord with the traditional in literature...
...Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
...this laxity to conform with the report is not as serious as the consequent defeat of the purpose of the reading period. This aim, which is to train the student to think for himself, is certainly not attained by the assignment of four hundred pages from a text book and biographies. The Professor in charge of History 5a ought to make the changes now which, will eventually have to be made in order that this course will harmonize with the spirit of the Reading Period...
...production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent. But for the present, sugar remains one of the commodities in which overproduction outrides profits...