Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decisions did not hamper Congress in its extension of the powers granted in the commerce clause of the Constitution. Those states are advancing ahead of their neighbors whose courts have similarly been most liberal in the construction of their several constitutions. To fulfill their purpose constitutions and laws must conform to the needs of the people and not be allowed to obstruct progress...
...Register this year will, however, conform to the original plans of the Council for such a book. The new volume will therefore contain 325 pages of reading matter, instead of 175, as formerly. It will be complete and reliable in every detail and its arrangement will be on a new basis. Many new features will be added, such as a directory of students by dormitories, and a geographical directory by home residences, based on the new registration cards...
...entrance of the Stadium by the class of 1879. It will bear a simple inscription commemorating the part taken by the class in the giving of the Stadium. The tablet has been designed by Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, the architects of the Stadium, and will be very simple, to conform to the general style of the structure. The south entrance will be heightened to better the effect. It is hoped that the tablet will be in place by Commencement...
Although students are expected to conform to the new distribution of courses, the Committee on the Choice of Electives stands ready to grant exceptions freely "in the case of earnest students who desire to change at a later time the plans made in their Freshman year" and to make "liberal allowances for earnest students who show that their courses are well distributed, even though they may not conform exactly to the rules laid down for distribution...
...that the drawing is labelled "Historic" not "Human Affinities." The bald and unqualified statement that the issue was suppressed by President Lowell is a bald and unqualified falsehood. The remainder of the item is a cleverly worded implication that the Lampoon's drawing does not conform to a very rigorous sense of decency. Incidentally, there is no mention of the broad black band that occupies a large portion of the picture...