Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...youth and inexperience we would suggest to our venerable but dyspeptic contemporary, the Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
...tobacco being pressed and interlocked, prevents particles from entering the mouth, and causes perfect combustion...
...Yale News says that before the Harvard-Yale game "every man in the nine was perfection; now he is damnation." It is too often the custom after a defeat to shower abuse on every individual member of the defeated nine, instead of regarding the affair in a philosophical manner, well knowing that in base-ball an almost perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months...
...Yale Record, speaking of the careful training of their crew says: "Under such constant and thorough coaching, the men can hardly fail to become almost perfect oarsmen by the day of the race, and indeed their work already appears to us better than that of any crew that we have ever seen here...
...college course and the rest of his time to the interests of the Princeton nine, came to the bat, the Amherst men rose in a body and greeted him with: "Schenck, '72; Schenck. '73; Schenck, '74; Schenck, '75," and so on, ending with "Schenck, '82." The gentleman, with perfect self-possession, turned to the crowd and said: "Yes, and Schenck...