Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...type to which we should conform as closely as circumstances will permit. It would contemplate the highest development of the individual student,--which involves the best equipment of the graduate. It would contemplate also the proper connection of the college with the professional schools; and it would adjust the relation of the students to one another. Let me take up these matters briefly in their order...
...those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb up in the list of the canvass, but its chief purpose would be missed. My aim has been every year to bring psychology to as many men as there...
...offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
...four-oar was formed, the rest of the crew going down to the class crews. The orders of the first and second crews remained the same yesterday, both going upstream together as far as the Brighton bridge, when they were forced to return to the boathouse, in order to adjust the outriggers on the starboard side of the shell, which were too far out to permit easy rowing. The crews then rowed upstream again, and the work was greatly improved...
...kicking a goal from a touchdown the kicker may touch or adjust the ball in the hands of the holder, so long as the ball does not touch the ground...