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...event of any difficulty arising in the interpretation or application of the foregoing articles or the agreements that may be made by the separate conference committees for each sport, two representatives, one from Yale and one from Harvard, shall meet and endeavor to adjust the difficulty. In case they cannot agree they shall choose a third person, not a member or graduate of either university, to act with them. The decision of the majority of these three persons shall be final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale Athletics. | 4/1/1890 | See Source »

...exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good, but to adjust ourselves to the environments in which God has placed us. The cultivation of our souls lies as much in doing good to others as in attempting to avert uncleanliness from ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of St. Paul's Society. | 1/17/1889 | See Source »

...committee of the Dartmouth faculty appointed to adjust the election troubles of the senior class, is attempting to effect a compromise between the two divided sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

...reason, and you are in every way imprudent men. And yet, oh, wonder, of wonders, "each may be good, and adds, perhaps, to the sum of happiness." While "the ideals to be derived from Christianity are completely inconsistent with those which political economy emphasizes," yet we "can only adjust ourselves to these inconsistencies to the best of our ability." The writer has dug for himself a deeper chasm than that which exists "between science and religion, which nobody has yet succeeded in bridging" - oh! - and in trying to leap it, has brought up in the depths between the two sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1887 | See Source »

...should rightly adjust the emotional and intellectual elements of his life, giving to neither exclusive-influence in his thought or action, but while seeing truth with a clear mind, he should grasp at its feeling with a heart for many and the experimental knowledge of what friendship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Dwight of Yale Delivers a Lecture to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

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