Word: conformance
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...there are four seasons, four points of the compass, four Evangelists, etc. In the patient's dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from...
...president of Commonwealth & Southern, big utility holding company, is willing to change the method of figuring power rates to conform with the President's insistence that utilities property valuations should be based on (1 cost of production, 2 cost of reproduction, 3 what was prudently and honestly invested, 4 estimates of tax experts, 5 the cost-plus plan...
...listen to Mr. Lee, one might think that Harvard shapes the curriculum and teaching methods in the grades and institutions of higher learning. This, of course, is not true. Harvard standards are sometimes too rigid for high school graduates to meet. To conform to these requirements, schools must retain the classics, the so-called "dead languages", and many other subjects which may not seem practical in the light of present day trends. Still the colleges are offering an almost unlimited amount of courses, of every kind and description, which, according to President Robert M. Hutchins, of the University of Chicago...
...basis for this claim that the youth in College at the present day have passed their intelectual prime and are tottering in dotage seems to rest on "the observable tendency of the College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form of professorial pressure on students to conform on the top of the academic heirarchy, and student pressure to conform on the bottom. Such a tendency may be "observable," but the challenge that it is all embracing or universal in scope must be taken...
...premise of those who believe that the undergraduate and faculty should not force students in the College to conform to their own standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about...