Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must be admitted that the liberal innovators who have reached out toward the freer method have often been sadly disappointed in the practical results. Their students did not accept the responsibility. But perhaps their failure came because they threw themselves upon an ideal method, not modified to conform to actual conditions. The truth is that the American College student is both boy and man; he comes in, a boy, with very little sense of responsibility, and yet he is often qualified to vote long before he takes his degree. The college, receiving him a boy should send him forth...
...future of the national cheer, nor that it does right in ascribing so great a share to American colleges in bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would...
...somewhat modified their recent strictures on foot ball, we shall be able to play the long anticipated Thanksgiving game. But it must be remembered that this is entirely owing to the courtesy of the Yale team, who have, in order to have a game with us, voluntarily agreed to conform to the arbitrary rulings of our faculty committee. We desire to thank Yale most sincerely for the honorable feeling that prompted this concession, a feeling that is most aptly expressed in the editorial from Friday's News which we reprinted entire in yesterday's issue. But even this latest move...
...after Sunday, November 18, 1883, the telegraphic time-signals sent automatically from this Observatory will conform to the time of the seventy-fifth meridian, to be known as "Eastern Time." This time is exactly five hours slower than Greenwich Mean Time. and 15 minutes 44.5 seconds slower than Boston State House Time heretofore furnished. It is intended that the new time shall be given to the public at noon on the Sunday named above; but as the Observatory signals are the means by which the persons in charge of -public time-pieces will make the necessary preparation for the change...
...essentially false character under which they are held. A college, which in other matters distinctly disowns the paternal theory of college government makes but and ill showing in insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory religious services. Almost nowhere else in the civilized world are men forced, to conform to a religious ritual despite their own wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else...