Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily the criterion. And if there seems to be no hope of that success in the future, if our capacities seem so limited in everything as to promise little hope of advancement in anything, we must do faithfully that which lies nearest us. "Tis not in mortals to command...
...excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under the new the book might be ranked either in the same class with those nearly perfect, or with those only mediocre...
...will be found a most amusing collection of conjectures. One pauses, even in the midst of his laughter, to wonder how sub-freshmen could have acquired so happy a faculty of snap-shot answering before going through the collegiate apprenticeship which most of us have served. But practice makes perfect, and the time may come when these same men will be able to enter a course at the mid-years, and, without purchasing a book, read the section by pure force of faultless sight translation and blindly audacious guessing, as was actually done in a classical course a few years...
...sale. - A member of the Harvard Bicycle Club wishes to sell a 52-inch bicycle. in perfect condition. Terms very low as a quick sale is desired. Apply to the secretary, 28 Hilton Block...
...sale. - A member of the Harvard Bicycle Club wishes to sell a 52-inch bicycle, in perfect condition. Terms very low as a quick sale is desired. Apply to the secretary, 28 Hilton Block...