Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without it college papers would lose their interest even in the colleges where they are published; their editorials would be insipid and without point, and many items of interest concerning, perhaps, some of the restricting powers, would be suppressed...
Grass widow. - Perhaps he does not feel at home in intellectual society. I should not wonder a bit if he were a perfect boor; they say he made his money but a short time...
...universal fashion among politicians to decry and abuse the conduct of Minister Lowell in regard to the Irish suspects. Mass meetings to denounce his course are having a great vogue. Opinions may differ as to the perfect wisdom of his policy; but might not the more impartial and unprejudiced classes unite to express their firm belief in his integrity and patriotism, which now appear to be so freely doubted, and to endeavor in some measure to stem the tide of demagogism that is rolling over the land? The Harvard Union might perform this function for this community, and might find...
...action of the plaintiff in the case of Strout versus the seven Bowdoin students, now on trial before the Supreme Court of Maine, seems perfectly justifiable and commendable. On the 25th of October last young Strout stood at the window of his room on the second floor of Appleton Hall. A piece of coal weighing one pound was thrown through the glass, striking him in the eye, causing a serious wound. A few minutes after the defendants entered the room on a hazing expedition, for the purpose of seizing some cider supposed to be in the possession of the freshman...
...celebrated collection of books, and for some of them obtained excellent prices. Among the choice things in the sale were the first four folio editions of Shakespeare, the fourth edition being in fine condition, but the others had had their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition (Rome, 1470), $135; the first edition of Homer...