Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being attempted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its departments are to be opened for consultation to any manufacturing corporations desiring information on the same basis of rates as an engineering firm. The cry has always been raised to make education more practical; to make it more nearly conform to later requirements of the outside world. In no institution does this state of affairs come to pass more nearly than in a scientific professional school. The benefit of this consulting system to Technology will lie in bringing it still closer to the industrial world. The teaching staff, even more than...
...ballots presented to the voters in the Sophomore and Junior Classes did not conform with the requirements laid down by the constitutions of those classes; for in the case of the President and Vice-President of 1921, and the President and Secretary-Treasurer of 1922, only two candidates were up for election where three were required...
...would seem reasonable to suppose that an expression of opinion in an editorial column ought at least to be serious. The columns of a daily college newspaper are not the most appropriate place for attempts at satire. Editorial candidates who desire to imitate the "Spectator" should at least conform more closely to their model...
...Boylston street by taking ten feet on the easterly side between Harvard square and the river; the construction of a hotel opposite the site of the Widener Library, with an adequate assembly hall and convention hall in the rear; and the regulation of the general style of architecture to conform with the present plans. A marble or granite shaft on the further bank of the Charles would harmonize with these plans and would serve as a lasting memorial to the University dead...
...colleges throughout the country the final ceremony of induction was merely the culmination of a week of organization and military and academic preparation. Virtually every institution has completely revised its curriculum to conform to the requirements of the War Department, and within the next few days it is expected that the new order of things will be working smoothly...