Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control of the funds, choice of instructors, etc. They will assist the founder in carrying out the plans already conceived by him, but will be free to perfect plans of their own. Many applications for positions on the board of instructors have already been received, some of them from men of ability abroad...
...every Yale man knows this is the whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...
...team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place and in that space of time men must get into perfect training and learn all the new tricks...
...personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched the game will fully coincide with this statement and will perfectly agree to the validity of the remark that, 'the natural development of the game into team-playing is itself a correction to any tendency to blows. College and popular reputation compels every good foot-ball player to be the same perfect gentleman on the field as in a drawing
...Sale-A 52-inch Harvard bicycle, with cyclometer, in perfect condition and nearly new. All nickered except the fellows. Price $75. Can be seen at private stable, corner Walnut avenue and Elmore street...