Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most permanent of human institutions; they outlast particular forms of government and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendant vitality Its charter, granted in 1650, is in force to-day in every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings...
...send away to friends an account of "these festival rites," what could be more fitting than to send the report as written and published by undergraduates who are themselves partakers in the festivities. Every effort will be made to make the record of each day as complete and perfect as possible...
...nevertheless important change in college control has within a few months been quietly effected among us. The transference of the oversight over student attendance at lectures from the office to the individual instructors, must be counted worthy to rank among the great strides made of late toward a perfect system of college government. Just as in politics, the nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified to limit...
...within fifty-seven minutes after starting. The rest of the hounds with the master, unable to find the scent, made a break at Porter's Station for home. The first man in was Mr. T. C. Craig, '87. He arrived about twenty minutes after the hares. The weather was perfect, and the run was most enjoyable, as most slow hunts are. It was a pity that the scent was scattered, but the fault is not wholly to be laid to the hares, for several times the paper was gathered up by interested "muckers" and scattered ahead by them in order...
...that a large number of men are out practicing every day on the track. Mr. Lathrop is so genial and considerate that they need have no fear about trying; and if they are qualified to try for any event he will do all in his power to perfect them for it. These fall meetings are useful in bringing out the new men and determining their merits. Such a large class as '90 should send out a strong delegation to the track. As for the intelligence concerning the hare and hounds runs, everybody in college will welcome the news of their...