Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exist in modern French, are found in the French of the eleventh century. There are fewer silent consonants, too, in the older tongure. Final d in modern French is pronounced like t when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. In old French the spelling was made to conform with the pronunciation...
...difficult to understand the position which Yale has taken with regard to the football game next fall, or rather to understand her motive in taking it. She can never have expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee...
Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...
...rules for throwing the hammer in the Harvard-Yale games have been changed so that they will conform to the intercollegiate rules this year...
...strictly to her avowed purpose, and it is hardly to be expected that Dartmouth in her far corner of the earth should be more fortunate. Yet progress is being made toward this ultimate end. Already our football interests are substantially upon this basis, and the track team fails to conform only in its place of meeting the teams of other colleges. Baseball it will be far more diffieult to bring under the same restriction, though much has been accomplished in this direction during the present season. As time goes on other colleges will recognize the soundness of the Harvard principle...