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...place, never affect the careless in dress. Literary men are often inclined to do this to show their disregard of conventionalities. Though one should never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you own it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society. True economy demands good clothes of quiet colors and patterns, unless you can afford and assortment. The rough cheviots, if composed of two distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears...
...lines, Harvard and Pennsylvania made their agreement, which is not a whit less strong for purity in athletics than the undergraduaate rule, and which saves the university feature of university teams. It is to this agreement that the rules adopted last week by the Intercollegiate Football Association almost exactly conform. That Yale has seen the impracticability of the undergraduate rule, we are heartily glad. The fact remains, however, that Yale has voted in mass meeting to abide by the rule till next January, independent of the action of other universities, and that one man on the eleven is not eligible...
...unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...
...want this evening, began Dr. Peabody, to speak to you very informally. One sometimes thinks that he should speak on purity. Such sermons, if not entered upon with great earnestness, often do more harm than good. The apostles before coming to Jesus were trying to conform with the law of Moses. Jesus came to them and told them to be pure. They understood from that God was their father and loved them and would be with them forever...
...Annexation would be dangerous to the United States. [a] Difficulties in making Canada's Parliamentary system conform to our Congressional; [b] From so great an increase of territory; [c] would increase the number of foreign born citizens. [d] Would increase the religious complications. [e] There would be a new sectional issue. [f] Difficulty in adjusting the debt; No. Amer...