Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pass a dangerous discontent, and swamp the Society. The chief trouble is that ordered goods are delayed. This is, perhaps, in most cases unavoidable; but the great number of complaints on this subject seems to indicate an inability on the part of the Society to do its work with perfect accuracy. If men were provident enough to give their orders in plenty of time this delay would be of little account; but as, we regret to say, they are not, some means of making the Society more reliable should be devised. More care on the part of the Society...
...this fall we can have the satisfaction of knowing that the contest will be before thousands of friends who will not fail to appreciate a gallant struggle whatever may be the issue. With so much at stake it behooves every foot-ball man to keep in as perfect condition as possible, not only during the winter months, but in the summer vacation as well, so that he may return in the fall ready to immediately adopt the strict training necessary for the sport and to be able to devote every particle of his strength towards gaining the highest position...
...Harvard should stand by the decision of the league convention, as expressed by a majority of the delegates, in this as in all other matters. When the matter of dissolving the league as it now stands and forming two others is brought before the convention, Harvard will have a perfect right to vote as she sees fit. Our relations with Amherst and Dartmouth have always been of a most friendly nature, and we trust that they may continue so. But we cannot think that in a matter of this kind Harvard should yield the indisputable right which she possesses...
...young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare shave the awkward corner looming in the distance, and how soon he shall venture to call upon stroke for that final spurt which shall bring the taper bow within bumping distance of the boat...
...tints the sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors and harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large...