Word: conformists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps a good way to illustrate these points is by summing up the essential features of the average Yale graduate. The Yale man is a sociable person, willing to "drink one up with the boys:" he is a conformist, with a superficial knowledge of cultural attainments, but with no real interest in them. His ideal of success can be expressed directly by his salary and by the number of committees of which he is a member. These are, of course, generalizations honored almost as much in the breach as in the observance, but as far as possible they...
...enthusiasm as well as of skepticism and indifference. And if it is beautiful, the Georgian chapel will be sufficiently justified. In view of the rooted Cambridge inclination to multanimity, we may say that Appleton is to be succeeded by another dissenting chapel. At least the architecture will be conformist. New York Times
...believe that Mr. Babbitt is not quite bright, and write examination papers as deliberate in perversity as he can make them. Either way, he will prosper in the course. The amateur humanists will get the gracious acknowledgements that fall to those who repeat things agreeably, and the non-conformist will find his carefully-planned papers marked with a creditable grade and a note: "Good argument. You'll get over this after a while...
Selbie is the principal of Mansfield College, which is one of the two or three non-conformist theological schools in Oxford. He is one of the leaders of the English Congregational Church and is generally recognized as one of the most religiously influential men in Oxford. His connection with the city and the university has been a close one. Several times he has visited the United States, but he has not been here recently...
Selbie is the principal of Mansfield College which is one of the two or three Non-conformist theological schools in Oxford. He is one of the leaders of the English Congregational church and is generally recognized as one of the most religiously influential men in Oxford. His connection with the city and the university has been a close one. Several times he has visited the United States, but he has not been here recently...