Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These wicked college students bring perfect godsends in the shape of subjects for editorials to the Post and other virtuous papers of the country. The recent Yale rush will be good for a column probably. Another case must not be overlooked by the Post in this connection. Last Tuesday a party of sophomores of Lafayette University, marching with a band to a banquet, were interrupted by a discordant band of freshmen with tin-horns. Thereupon, a rush took place, finally resulting in the arrest of three of the party by the police...
...types of such a college; and Harvard is fast becoming such a university. At present, she is in a state of transition, and there are anomalies still in her course which have not been swept away. It will take but few years more to complete the change to a perfect university system. But the system of Yale is radically unwise in this respect, as we believe, for this reason stated by the Beloit professor. "If young men are kept in preparatory training-schools, and are not allowed to assume the responsibilities of manhood till the blood is chilled...
...daily, and the effort to master two or three simple lessons, exert on the sensitive organizations of young children. Their brain and nerves are exquisitely delicate, and it is a period of such rapid growth that the power of nutrition is taxed to supply material for the formation of perfect tissue." And we might add that the nutrition to be had at Memorial is hardly suited for the delicate brains and nerves of freshmen, either...
...reporter yesterday morning took breakfast at the Vendome with his friend, Mr. O. Wilde, and in the conversation which followed between the young men the poet said that on the previous evening he had met the most perfect ideal of aestheticism that he had yet seen in America. "This chawming creature," said he, "in both spirit and dress is the very daisy of idyllity." The reporter expressed a great yearning to know the name of this fortunate being. He was told that it is Dan'l Pratt - "Not Daniel," said Oscar, "but simplistically beautiful Dan'l." Immediately our reporter excused...
...fragrance of flavor and perfect aroma...