Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lately met a successfull Girl Graduate, and melancholy indeed was the impression she made upon me. She had passed the examinations with the highest honors, and she was pointed out to me as a perfect marvel of knowledge, a walking encyclopeadia of buried languages...
...fair showing, and a close observer could see the promise of very good things in the future. The men played in not particularly good time and some of the music was rather too hard for them. Reubenstein dances were a good selection, being not easily comprehensible and requiring perfect execution to make them effective. one could still hear through the playing of the Pierian a certain appreciation and coherence. If we may be allowed a suggestion we would say that with persistent work upon music not too difficult they will be able to play better than...
...however slight, is inexcusable where human life is concerned. And if the care with which the boat house was formerly looked after was not sufficient, as has been proven, we believe we would earnestly recommend that a great deal more care be bestowed on it so as to ensure perfect safety beyond doubt. We escaped an appalling disaster by so little that it ought to be a sufficient warning in the future for one department not to depend on another's watchfulness, and so suspend investigation until after the accident has happened. All in all, we have every reason...
...Yale is said to be caused by the students when heated by exercise, drinking the college water which is tainted by defective drainage. President Porter, however, denies this and says that every case of fever has been brought to the college and that the system of drainage is perfect...
Some decidedly interesting revelations are contained in the following editorial clipped from the Yale News. If Dr. Sargent is correctly represented it must be said that his conduct is to say the least disingenuous : "Dr. Sargent of Harvard has just been here. He came to try and perfect some arrangement by which all association with professionals and more especially professional trainers in all branches of college athletics could be done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they...