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Coming to more definite points of resemblance, we see that duty, however simple, is a religious act; for a failure to perform it involves the suffering of innocent persons. Again, duty is universal; that is, in following it we conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must be regarded as a sin. Here the similarity to religion and its laws is too clear to demand explanation. Finally, duty is always authoritative. It is the call of the whole world upon the individual, and for this reason it can never be avoided without some resulting misfortune. This call...
...underhand means, or takes it away from the Library secretly. Such a man sets himself directly against the general interest and has to be dealt with accordingly. He is deprived of the use of the Library, not because he has broken a certain rule, but because he fails to conform to the liberal principles on which the Library is administered, and shows himself unfit to be trusted in a Library that relies on the loyal support and willing co-operation of those who use it. Very truly yours, WILLIAM C. LANE...
...undergraduates and graduates--will be named in the Commencement programme of June 27, 1900; and their essays will be read in public. Essays are not to exceed 10,000 words; they must be handed to the Recording Secretary of the University on or before April 1, 1900, and must conform to the rules printed on page 454 of the University Catalogue...
...knowledge in every department of medicine has accumulated in past years to an extent that makes it impossible for a single professor to master all completely. The field of knowledge in any one special branch is large enough to entirely engross the whole study of one man. To conform to this increase, a method of instilling into the student a scientific power of observation in place of text-book knowledge will be introduced. The lectures will explain the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work explain the lectures, as heretofore. Instead of running...
...partly of members of the Governing Boards of the University," it can but be plain to every one that even if "artistic questions can rarely be separated from questions of cost, of utility, and of express or implied obligation to benefactors," they might often be made to conform to each of these specifications...