Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love, according to Sorokin's working definition of the word, is not as simple as the phrase "I love you" might indicate. Certainly not merely a fleeting emotion, true love, in fact, is five dimensional. The perfect love must include a definite percentage of intensity, extensity, duration, purity, and adequacy...
...clear advantage is with the Fortunate Altruist according to Director Sorokin. The perfect example is given in the life history of Serafim of Sarov: "Born in the pious family of a building contractor, Serafim early showed his religiosity by playing around a church which his mother had built..." His life ended appropriately at the age of 74 as he died quietly in the keeping position of prayer...
Congratulations to the Department of Buildings and Brounds, which has at last found a perfect substitute for the rather untidy grass which has for so long disfigured Harvard Yard. Many of us were worried when we saw a gang of workmen spreading hot asphalt over what had been a lawn at the entrance to Seever Hall, but our anxieties have been set at rest now that the metalled surface has been painted green. If this green does not exactly blend into the surrounding landscape the fault must lie with the landscape, and I hope Buildings and Grounds will have...
...smaller, or if Widener Library were 600 times larger, Thomas B. Pitman '14 would have had nothing to do in 1936. But circumstances favored Pitman: Harvard then commissioned him to construct the world's smallest university. For the modest sum of $40,000, he did indeed build it a perfect reproduction of its financier now on permanent display on the main floor of Widener...
Alexander Gelley '55 of Adams House received Honorable Mention for his essay, "The Perfect Ceremony of Shakespeare's Sonnets...