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...begin with, I will lay down the rule that there must be some natural facility in adaptation and appropriation besides originality, which is admitted to be a sine qua non. One must have the faculty of selection in its highest development. We ourselves are living illustrations of the law of "The Survival of the Fittest" in its grossest and most palpable application. This law we must apply to the higher and (if I may) more aesthetic province of dress and manners. The theory that manners are the exponents of the feelings, and that the good heart shows itself in good...
...RULE I. - This cup shall be awarded to that college of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association which shall be champion from one Field Meeting till the next...
...RULE II. SEC. II. - That college shall be champion which shall win a plurality of first prizes...
...case that the champion of the previous year be not one of these colleges described under Sec. 2 and Sec. 3 of Rule II., and that two or more colleges shall win an equal number of first and an equal number of second prizes; then, for the ensuing year, the championship shall be held in abeyance, and merely the names of the colleges that make the tie, together with the date and place of performance, shall be inscribed on the cup, and the cup shall be kept for that year by the Executive Committee...
...RULE III. - In case at any time the I. C. A. A. should be disbanded, this cup shall become the personal property of the college whose name shall appear most frequently on the cup. But in case two or more colleges shall have been champions an equal number of times, and in case, also, their names shall appear on the cup in ties, then the cup shall be awarded to that college whose name appears most frequently in ties...