Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eliot, after mentioning Dr. Brackett's service as characterized "by perfect disinterestedness, skill in teaching and a strong influence for good on all his colleagues and all his students", and after noting his contribution to the standing of his profession and to the idea that preventive dentistry is an essential part of preventive medicine, ends his letter thus...
...university by the actions of certain bodies of its undergraduates after a football victory. Even in this country, where we are all, supposedly, one people, it would be impossible to draw a thousand athletes together for competitions without friction of some sort. Is it sensible, then, to expect perfect harmony among the athletes of many nations, all strung up to the tautest pitch of excitement? And is it sensible to regard any personal reaction to that excitement as the expression of the offending athlete's country...
Harvard is thus becoming a vast and highly-organized business proposition, mechanically nearly perfect, and consequently without the soul that was the inspiration for its founding. Men come to college examined uniformly by the College Entrance Examination Board; they complete the required number of courses; take their language tests, their divisionals, and pass out of Harvard cheated--cheated out of the companionship, the enthusiasms, and the tremendous inspiration that a great University like this should give...
...short stories show imagination and an understanding of problems of style. Technically, of course, they are not perfect, nor is it to be expected that they should be, since they do not set out to be the work of professional writers. Yet, by and large, they are better than the stories that I remember in the old Advocates. The writers are beginning to realize that the only stories which have any pretense to importance are those which have some significance for life. Imaginatively, they are well conceived. Their style is uniformly good. These writers should all be heard from later...
...doctor did not, however, advise anyone to take up blood supplying as a life profession. "Donors must always be in perfect health, without the slightest trace of disease. We examine a specimen of the blood of everyone who wishes to give some for transfusions, and if it is not absolutely satisfactory we refuse to permit them to supply...