Word: conformance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion of the two arts. Nathan the Wise, though written in five months...
...kind was not brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such a club would be of any becuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect; and who shall in other and all respects conform to the rules and regulations of the organization...
...constructed at this end of the temple. The great chamber, or Parthenon, became the antechamber of the church, and was connected with the Hekatompedos by doors cut through the solid wall which had hitherto separated them. The interior arrangement of the temple was so changed as to make it conform to that of a Christian church, and vaulted ceilings were introduced...
...deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem and confidence in which it ought to be held by all Ultimately we believe the 'theory" will conform to the 'condition.' American colleges must be entirely American. There must be a harmony between college teaching and the sober purposes and practical sense of the people...
...pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that he is making a reasonable use of his opportunities...