Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...
...running track overhead; the lockers and retiring rooms are on the floor below. It is claimed that the gymnasium surpasses even the Hemenway in regard to size, apparatus, light, and ventilation, and it certainly does in regard to the last two qualifications, the arrangements for which are perfect...
...congratulate the able management for their great success in furnishing us three such enjoyable meetings, still more on the promptness and quiet with which they were dispatched. Our only regret is that they could not have made a more perfect understanding with Jupiter Pluvius in regard to the weather - two rainy Ladies' Days are beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitants...
...lame and disjointed way, with Capt. Harris in coxswain's seat. '88 followed '86 and the self-possession of her representatives as they seated themselves in their handsome barge elicited much admiration; still more when they disappeared up the river with a long swinging stroke, - in a perfect time and unison as if they had been on the water for weeks. The juniors were the last to have the float, following '86 down the river at a fair pace...
...written any good; but the ideas obtained from reading the work of others was of inestimable value. No matter how careful and thorough in his criticisms the instructor is, no matter how painstaking the student is, under the present system, he can but go on attempting to perfect himself in the peculiar style which chance or his early education may have led him to adopt. If he gets a chance to study other themes besides his own, he gets new ideas, he sees an entirely different style which has certain charms which his own does not possess, and almost unconsciously...