Word: conforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that the recent case, at a western college, of a student who was ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered because he cheered for the opposites team, shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter only made for sullenness and stubborn reaction, while the former at least encouraged thought and reasoning self-correction. If the horse that has been led to the water...
Mile, Novaes excelled in the Chopin group. James Gibbons Buneker once said that "to play Chopin, one must have acute sensibilities, a versatility of mood, a perfect mechanism, the heart of a woman and the brain of a man"; and Mile. Novaes seemed to conform with most of that statement. Occasionally she was guilty of excessive rubato, and occasionally she rather pounded the lower reaches of the piano; but, for vitality of tone, evenness of scale, and fine interpretation, she cannot find an equal among any of the contemporary pianists we have heard. The Mazurka and the Etude were especially...
...more than other men who are really quite as conscientious but more sensible. In forming one's own principles of conduct it is proper to consider, not what most men do, but what most men sincerely believe that men ought to do. This is wise, not in order to conform to other men's standards of conduct, but to obtain light in forming one's own standard; to avoid narrow, partial and prejudiced opinions; to ensure so far as possible that one sees clearly and fully all the considerations on which his opinions ought to be based. But when...
...Yale crews this year, has been put in complete charge of the University crew, while Coach P. J. Corderry, who last year shaped the eight which defeated Harvard, is to have control of Freshman rowing. The Graduate Committee has authorized a change in the rigging of the boats to conform to the American style of rowing...
...today persists not only in refusing to take those measures byt also in sticking to the very measures and practices which have brought distress and ruin upon her. Whether the clique of tyrants who are responsible for her fatuous course with its disastrous results will mend their ways and conform to the economic principles which the world in general is agreed upon as essential to prosperity, and to those moral principles which will permit other nations to enter into confident and friendly relations with her, is a question which only the future can answer. But whatever they do, the course...