Word: conformance
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...section, but to those of the average man - that is, neither the best nor the poorest; in this way an opportunity is given to the one to write the paper with distinguished excellence, and to the other with reasonable credit. If instructors are not willing to conform to one of the most prudent regulations of the college, it is to be hoped that the authorities will direct their attention to them and help them realize that it does require somewhat more work to write a paper than to make...
...unsuggestive subjects set for composition, and nothing is more disheartening than to feel that mere polished, empty formality of expression counts for more than original and characteristic work. There are styles and styles in literature, and no man ought to have been obliged to conform to any particular one that an instructor happened to admire especially. With the present division of the class into sections and sub-sections each student's work receives more particular attention, and thus, in several ways, we may say, the advantages offered in this important department of the college have been extended and made more...
...abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity and a hot-house poppy? The future alone can decide. But whatever may come, may we never see the day when...
Considerable surprise was occasioned, among the sophomores, by the fact that one of the instructors in themes had lowered the marks of his division in order to make them conform to a standard adopted by the other instructor in the same course. The question naturally arises, why did not the latter instructor raise his marks in order to make them conform to the standard adopted by his colleague...
...girl under extremely favorable circumstances will do very well, but I tell you when you have nine of them, all with entirely different inclinations and propensities, to which you must conform your own, it makes a fellow long again for those happy ante-woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...