Word: mold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still upon the throne" but prophesied hopefully that the time could not be far distant when Yale would "progress to a system of voluntary attendance at classes and church." "Then," continued the editorial, "we may look for a development of individualism and bid a fond farewell to the mold that stamps every Yale man alike." It was not perhaps a very radical program; perhaps most of its radical features appeared in their final editorial, yet it was strong enough to stir the incoming board to a staunchly conservative reaction...
...time to turn backward in its flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...
...Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet of the Capitol. Senator Williams, of Mississippi, defeated this bill with a timely jest about forbidding the sparrows to fly around the building. ... I will continue to speak as I think best. My speeches mold public opinion. I was elected because my constituents know I have backbone enough to stand by my principles...
...Marshall, Kent, Blackburn, and other famous English and American judges were to come back today, they would find rules, laws, and situations which they had never heard of; but they would be able to take the material that they had in their day and mold it to meet the changing conditions in the new problem. . . . That is the object of the Harvard Law School," said Dean Pound Hon. '20, in his address to the new students of the University Law School last night in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House...
Cast in a Victorian mold, Louis N. Parker's play of a Victorian statesman, whose vision raised both his country and himself above the throttling influences of the period, was enthusiastically received Monday evening at the Copley. The play, so the program states, is a romantic comedy. And, indeed, this description is in some respects more accurate than calling it a historical comedy would be, for although the interest centers about an actual historical figure in the act of accomplishing an undertaking of historic importance, the material has been so treated that the result frequently resembles more the conventional melodrama...