Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great question is, Dr. Hall said, how can we train ourselves to adjust our sympathies and affections to the religions of alien races? Lack of knowledge, he explained, is the direct cause of localization of thought. The indifference of minds, completely absorbed in the abnormal provincialism of their own opinions is as likely to do harm as good in its charity. Such an attitude is a contradiction to the Christ in whom we pretend to believe. And the sectarian religious hatred which may follow from this is the most ugly ghost in human history...
...order to decrease the inequality between the amount of tuition paid by those who take the degree of A.B. in four years and the amount paid by those who take the degree in three years, and in general to adjust the charges for tuition more closely to the amount of instruction taken by each student in the College, the Scientific School, and the Graduate School, the Corporation has established a supplementary fee of $20 a full course and $10 a half course for all courses which a student takes in excess of the number required each year of members...
...last May that I had secured permission, and again last fall, when I submitted a schedule of dates and times, simply neglected to arrange the Thursday squads for a different practice hour. Now that the conflict occurs, the track management and those individuals concerned ought to be willing to adjust themselves to a situation which was brought about through no fault of the basketball management. Having removed all objections I arranged my schedule in good faith. Changes at this late date would constitute a breach of faith, as well as a breach of contract. The present arrangement is merely...
...that the rule permitting only three out of town games be suspended, and that a fourth game be added. This modification of the regulations was not granted. At no time, however, did the Athletic Committee indicate what games should be omitted, leaving such details for the management itself to adjust...
Professor Wendell says: "On the question of the adoption by Harvard of the uniform entrance examinations my judgement, in a word, would be to 'avoid entangling alliances.' I think that the efficiency of the English Department has been lowered by every attempt made to adjust its standards to those of other colleges or the secondary schools...