Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire of discovering the treasure of mental culture which antiquity had bequeathed, others endeavoring to kindle in a new generation the ideal enthusiasm which had animated their lives. Such was the origin of universities, based, in the conception, and in the plan of their organization, upon the most perfect freedom. But we must not thin here of freedom of teaching in the modern sense. The majority was usually very intolerant of divergent opinions. Not unfrequently the adherents of the minority were compelled to quit the university in a body. This was not restricted to those cases in which the church...
...through Mr. Wendell, advanced instruction in rhetoric and theme writing to those who have not been able to secure admission into English 5, is an indication of the desire of the college to strengthen the department of English and to enlarge the opportunities offered to those who wish to perfect themselves in the writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study...
...foot ball team was favored with an almost perfect day for its first game yesterday, and a large number of students gathered on Jarvis to see it open the season...
...serene at Amherst. Our reason for drawing this conclusion is the opening sentence of an editorial in the last Student. "The college year at Amherst so far has been characterized by perfect quiet." After reading through a few melancholy sentences about the absence of tin horns and other attendant instruments of rejoicing, we come to the main-spring which actuates the feeling of enforced quiet. "The freshman chirrups to his fellow freshmen, and carries a cane as the spirit moves him. Though he is small there is no fear in his soul. The days are quiet, and the nights...
...their adversaries on the back-line, but how often does anyone do it in the course of a rally? I have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford and Renshaw play, and they don't. As regards the subject of volleying at the net, in my humble opinion, perfect back-play will never beat perfect volleying, and a perfect volleyer will (though an equally good back-player) prefer to volley a perfect back-player, just as much as a perfect back-player will stand and volley a weak back-player, for the very good reason that it saves...