Word: conformity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President." This unfortunate beginning, however, is rectified by the featured article, "The Revolution in science," by J. w. N. Sullivan. This critical exposition of the scientific philosophies of Eddington, Jeans, and Millikan, succeeds in avoiding most of the errors of modern popularizers of science. Not sufficiently accurate, perhaps, to conform to the standards of Professor Whitehead, it is clearly written and stimulates the reader's thought; it is an excellent introduction to the rather febrile speculations which have grown out of the Post-Newtonian physics...
...assist in the work of Cambridge unemployment relief. Aid is offered in the tangible medium of service and currency. The committee premises complete cooperation with Cambridge authorities in soliciting contributions from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
...student accustomed to the easy-going, good-hearted manners of the Biological laboratories is near prostration at his first glimpse of the inner workings in the domain of chemistry. He has lived from hand to mouth, intellectually speaking, and is suddenly forced to conform to rule in every breath he takes. This tends to destroy the precious faculty of indifference and is discouraging. But an even worse effect of the department's callousness is the harm it does to what the undergraduate regards as "academic leisure": instead of being delightfully at his ease, the student of chemistry is made...
...than he when on the fourth attempt he won last November. As the first Democratic governor in 16 years, he recommended to the Democratic Legislature a combined sales and gross income tax, old age pensions, direct relief for jobless and a change in the local Dry enforcement law to conform with the November repeal of state constitutional Prohibition. Every year he goes hunting, kills his buck...
...intelligent examination--such as the Cambridge Tripos in English--and until we provide examinations which demand and measure intelligent work, tutors will continue either to cram their students or, as the case may be, to struggle against catering to the student's practical needs in an effort to conform to a highly unsatisfactory system...