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...detailed to the school, regular army officers, preferably former graduates of the Special Service Schools as instructors in infantry, cavalry, field artillery, engineering, signal corps, etc., it being the intention that those officers so detailed shall be particularly competent to develop and organize the courses of instruction to conform to the methods pursued at the above mentioned Service Schools...
...forced upon the State of Oklahoma by the warfare of the brewers themselves, proved to be exceedingly efficient and the idea has been adopted in nearly every state enforcement act since that time. One after another the state dry laws, permitting the two per cent privilege, were modified to conform to the one-half of one per cent limit. The brewers themselves by their systematic attempt to destroy the prohibition laws only succeeded in destroying their two per cent privilege. Threshed out in actual experience covering a period of nearly twenty years, the two per cent limit was such...
...Roberts said, "It is a sad fact, but there are usually no more than two men in a thousand capable of understanding poetry. There are many hypocrites, to be sure, who pretend to understand verse and who join an exclusive Browning cult, but this is done in order to conform to custom. The poet is born, not made. He has within him the 'urge of the eager' which needs no routine training. In college the poet is usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school of young poets here in America...
...being attempted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its departments are to be opened for consultation to any manufacturing corporations desiring information on the same basis of rates as an engineering firm. The cry has always been raised to make education more practical; to make it more nearly conform to later requirements of the outside world. In no institution does this state of affairs come to pass more nearly than in a scientific professional school. The benefit of this consulting system to Technology will lie in bringing it still closer to the industrial world. The teaching staff, even more than...
...ballots presented to the voters in the Sophomore and Junior Classes did not conform with the requirements laid down by the constitutions of those classes; for in the case of the President and Vice-President of 1921, and the President and Secretary-Treasurer of 1922, only two candidates were up for election where three were required...