Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
...Court of Industrial Relations had ordered the Charles Wolff Packing Co. to conform to certain wages, hours of labor, working conditions. The Supreme Court of the state had commanded obedience to the order. After a preliminary review of the case by the U. S. Supreme Court, the State Court gave up its rulings on wages and working conditions, but insisted on the specified labor-hours. That crippled the Industrial Court's prestige. Last week's final review threw out the ruling on labor-hours. The Relations Court is now believed to be dead.* Gov. Allen's great...
...general examinations might well remain, however, as a minimum standard to which the candidate for a degree must conform and as an inspiration to the constitutionally idle. This is compulsion at a sane and healthy minimum. As an added incentive to original work every candidate for a degree should be required to submit a thesis upon some subject in his field of concentration, for, after all, an examination even of the most improved form places an emphasis on the marshalling rather than the creative faculties of man. The writing of a thesis ought not to prove particularly onerous in consideration...
...numbered into the hundreds, while Memorial Hall was begging for customers, it was decided that the cafeteria be closed. The burning of Massachusetts Hall afforded an excuse of expediency. The college needed the room for offices. Here was a chance to discontinue the cafeteria, and to make Memorial Hall conform to the ideals of the President. No one will deny that Memorial Hall is improved. Most of us realize that the price of board has risen from $8.50 to $12.50 at the same time. It is worth it, and there is a demand for it, 300 strong. But there...
...That the President be empowered to provide for temporary increases and decreases in immigration quotas to conform to periods of labor shortage and unemployment in this country...