Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ethically, a man may hold one of three relations to the drink question. He may withdraw from it, may adjust himself to it, or enlist it its service. The first is the manner of selfishness, the second legislation, and the last that of duty. If a man be considered as isolated. atomic, he has but two considerations, namely, his physical welfare, and his general welfare, and no definite course can be laid out for him. But just so soon as he becomes an active member of an organic whole, just so soon does his relation to it, determine his relations...
...this commonwealth must surely be the inevitable condition of human life; the natural man of Hobbs would only have the desolate freedom of a wild ass. So man stands by his very nature in the midst of a social condition, and it is his best course to adjust himself to it, not to try to escape it. His right conduct is the adjustment of his social life to the public order, it is simply the stable adjustment between the part and its whole. This is the question of modern ethics...
DEAR SIR-The Harvard representatives invested by your Committee with full power to adjust, if possible, the existing difficulties in baseball between Yale and Harvard, submit the following report...
...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...