Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GOLF CLUB.- Members are expected when on the links to conform to the established etiquette of golf as contained in the rules...
...letter from the Class Day Committee urging Seniors to conform to their agreement with the Corporation in regard to the conduct of the Tree exercises must have the attention and the respect of every member of the class. It should be borne in mind that the Corporation is strongly opposed to the exercises as they have been held in former years. It was thought in February that the old quadrangle back of Hollis, where the exercises are held, had been outgrown, and that the wearing of football clothes and the formation of combinations in the scrimmage were undesirable features...
...SCHILLING.MEDICAL VISITATION.- The office hour will be changed, beginning Saturday, April 10, to conform to the cards which have been distributed to all students. The regular consultation hour is to be as follows...
Most men have a definite bent, but to devote themselves to one thing they must conform to the bars of circumstance. They must work with the tools and staff at hand. But hindrances annoy them, and at times God appears to mock. Yet, though the human will cannot arrive at its chosen point, the discipline of character will permit another goal. For a strenous nature such schooling is hard; but character is the only thing which man can win, hold and take away with...
...methods employed are illadapted to the undertaking to convert people to Christianity.- (a) Missionaries provoke opposition and hatred rather than confidence.- (x) Missionaries do not conform to the customs of the natives.- (y) They are lavish in their mode of living.- (b) To the Mohammedans and Budhists, and even to the ignorant heathen, the Christianity of the missionaries is not very attractive.- (x) The missionaries present the Christianity infected with the bitter internal animosities of numerous opposing sects.- (y) Missionaries constantly squabble among themselves, either for more preferment from home, or for more influence among the natives.- (z) The natives...