Word: congruently
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...find themselves existentially challenged by Reverend But-trick's sermons, own stacks of Rodgers and Hammerstein records, and think James Gould Cozzens should have gotten the Nobel Prize, but one would like to believe it. If only all the forms of intellectual laziness and disinfected passion were some-how congruent, the Enemy would be more clearly defined, easier both to see and to grapple with. But, alas, what Dwight MacDonald has dubbed "the Middlebrow Counter-Revolution" is a more diffuse and deceptive thing than that: it manifests itself in lush arrangements of Bach and suburban productions of Shakespeare, its artifacts...
...views of the academic machine therefore suggest two congruent functions. The apparent purpose of the machine is to grind out up to date versions of the truth. But at the same time our machine is turning out the truth, it is also acting as a social escalator, helping the unsocialized ambitions. Needless to say, neither function can survive alone. The machine which focusses exclusively on making leaders will have an intellectually moribund faculty which cannot set the right example for the students. Only when the academic mind is operating at full efficiency can it make its viewers love the smell...
...rudimentary version of the machine, the student answers by manipulating printed figures or letters. His arrangement of the figures and letters is compared by the machine with the correct answer, in code. If machine answer and student answer are congruent, the machine automatically proceeds to the next frame. If they do not agree, the student's answer is blanked out and he must answer again; the machine will not proceed until the right answer has been set down...
...limit arbitrarily a man's capacity for work, to restrain ability, is non-congruent with the ideals and aims of Harvard. An undergraduate may go whither his powers lead him; no cage is placed about him. Our sister universities sacrifice the individual for the entire group, when, if they would but seek them, tasks for all would be found, without limiting the exceptional undergraduate...