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...advisability of individualizing education in Harvard College still further. Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
...heresies, an Inquisition-and a God. The God-or, more exactly, the Holy Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically all the biological sciences, including anthropology, must conform to this principle. Lately Soviet scientists have made a special effort to straighten out the kinks of genetic theory (explanations of the heredity mechanism in the germ cells) along lines of Marxist rectitude (TIME, June...
...accentuate the natural quality of the material at his disposal gives rise to an unstultified and graceful structure. In his plans for homes, Wright's continued emphasis on the horizontal and rather low-slung design for prairie dwellings is an example of his successful attempt to make architecture conform to the contours of the surrounding countryside. His expert handling of the floating cantilever principle in constructing the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo enabled that building to withstand the great earthquake of 1923. In short, the man has succeeded in combining grace and utility, those two perfect mates who are seldom seen...
TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in the future. To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook-organ and nothing else...
...third of a nation. But the essential U. S. standard, as the yardstick by which it measured its prosperity, did not shrink in ten years of depression. Advertisements in U. S. magazines and newspapers showed that citizens wanted the same things. No orators plumped for lowering the standard to conform to conditions; the demand was to change conditions to conform to the standard...