Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to assist the committee all students are requested to conform to the above arrangements...
President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which...
...have been much perplexed as to the most fitting way in which this should be done; some have thought that a Greek play should be presented; others, principally the leaders in the present progressive educational movement, think that one of Shakspere's plays "set with ancient simplicity." would better conform to the spirit of the time. While this perplexity exists here at home, there is going on in a quiet, unassuming way, something which will do more to commemorate fittingly this great event than can the presentation of any play. It has been a continual source of regret that...
...heralded by the approach of the ancient singe bearing upon them the SPQR. Great care has been expended upon the costumes. Artemidorus, the sophist, and the soothsayer will be dressed in a different manner from that of the hackneyed public stage-costumes. The dress of the citizens will conform as closely as possible to the time of the establishment of the Roman empire, and many scenes of the play promise to appear highly realistic. Over a hundred students will take part. The procession will enter from the rear of the stage, cross the stage obliquely, and retire by the opposite...
...restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform. As to the upper-classmen, we have no doubt that the request will be heeded. It may be that we are "counting our chickens" too early, but the verbum sap. had better be given at a venture than given too late...