Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
...specialist who loves his study may devote all possible time and energy to a course, and pass perfect examinations, and yet his work count less than that of this favored superficialist, who has spent less time on the course, but receives the higher mark because he has taken no other course in the same branch...
...Berlin, Vienna, and other principal cities of the world. Each correspondent will closely follow the literary productions of the country relating to which he writes, and will give numerous extracts and translations, so that the readers of the Revue Internationale will have placed before them every fifteen days "a perfect mirror of the current literature of the world...
...Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed or wish to perfect, and the time before their particular examination furnishes just the time needed by them to work in, if the laboratories were only open. Anything which will be of benefit to a class of hard-working men without any extra cost ought to be granted by the authorities...
Tutoring from perfect notes in Fine Arts 3. Apply immediately to "B." 880 Main street...