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...strictly to her avowed purpose, and it is hardly to be expected that Dartmouth in her far corner of the earth should be more fortunate. Yet progress is being made toward this ultimate end. Already our football interests are substantially upon this basis, and the track team fails to conform only in its place of meeting the teams of other colleges. Baseball it will be far more diffieult to bring under the same restriction, though much has been accomplished in this direction during the present season. As time goes on other colleges will recognize the soundness of the Harvard principle...
...other committees. It is absolutely essential that to insure the proper distribution of tickets the committee must hold rigidly to this rule and discountenance any violation of it either in spirit or in letter. Consequently every senior who purchases a ticket from the Class Day Committee tacitly agrees to conform to this rule. If he does not do so his action cannot in any way be said to be honorable. We do not care to go on the assumption that it is necessary to make every purchaser sign a paper pledging himself to abide by the principles which govern...
...performance last night was all, and more than all, that could be desired. In any criticism of the actors, it must always be remembered that they are laboring under very unusual difficulties. The mere recitation of the lines so as to retain the sense and at the same time conform to the peculiarities of the metre, is no slight achievement. Even this, however, is not the greatest difficulty which has to be overcome. Through about half of the play the actors are accompanied by music, which makes it a very easy matter to fall into a sing-song manner...
...This is of great importance in science, but of even more and of far greater difficulty in the domain of conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive in the human mind, as personal freedom, popular autonomy, and social justice. These always have been controlling agencies of society...
...right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very apt unconsciously to construct one and to make the facts conform to it whether they will...