Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...
...Harvard man does not conform to any fixed pattern in thought, word, or action. He has none of the bubbling effervescence springing from the rock of faith in self and college that characterizes those who have dwelt within the sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what...
...order to assist the Committee, all students are requested to conform strictly to the above arrangements...