Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to imply, the fault of the educators. All men are not born equal, nor is their training equal; lastly, they do not work equally hard. Each freshman admitted to college is certified usually only by the fact that he has met certain tests--imperfect, and restricted to the intellectual. A college can take care of only those who can and are willing to meet its standards. Those who do not have no chance to survive, for they are neither worthy nor fit. Waste there is, of course, but it is the waste which accompanies every human and natural institution...
...more introduction to the phenomena of Harvard College life is necessary. The institutions existing to serve this purpose are sadly inadequate or only tepidlx efficient in their sphere a few addresses and receptions a sheaf of formal official information an inaccessible Dean, a system of Senior advisers obviously imperfect. The need is urgent for some in situation which shall not make new demands on Freshman time, but which will disseminate a comprehensive mass of useful information, general and specific, to each man before he undertakes his Harvard career...
Thoroughness is a virtue that has never been sufficiently extolled. The cursory reader of even this daily pays the penalty for his cursory perusal by an imperfect knowledge of the facts in the case. Not that we are by any manner of means apologizing for the incident. On the contrary, we relished it thoroughly. From the unfortunates who were victimized we exacted poetic justice. A journalistic Nemesis overtook those who read the headlines and run. Princetonian...
...According to Vincent Pater: "We believe that Purgatory exists, as we believe firmly that Hell and Heaven exist, because God has made known this to us through the Catholic Church. . . . It is a place of detention where the imperfect departed souls are purified before entrance into Heaven by suffering both from deprivation of the vision of God and from some kind of confinement by fire...
Dartmouth's slate, which promises to be as clean as anyone's at the end of the season, was never threatened with a smudge from Brown. Messrs. Hall, Oberlander, Dooley, Leavitt and their assistants travelled 222 yards during an afternoon punctuated with many imperfect passes by Brown. Score: Dartmouth 10, Brown...