Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...either assist zealous students in attaining an education, or it can undertake to educate all who choose to come to it. In the latter case the education can never be thorough, but it may be useful; in many cases more useful than an education in itself more perfect but less adapted to the needs of the person possessing it. But an institution established for this purpose must adapt its regulations to its ends. Men who come to college to be educated expect the college to do the greater part of the work. They wish an education rubbed into them...
...condition of the College Telegraph Company is extremely good, as under the present efficient management all the lines have been thoroughly insulated, the batteries newly fitted up, and everything put in perfect working order. The Company desires that its number of members be recruited from the lower classes, in order to perpetuate its existence, and it is to be hoped, now that the nature of the society is understood, that students who are at all interested in this matter will enroll their names immediately...
...down "so as to make the blood circulate." This was explained to me after wards. I should have circulated myself at the time, had I been able to get up. My friend Diogenes, in the next cell, laughed at my groans, but he soon stopped. After making my circulation perfect, my operator stood me up, and a stream that would have taken the prize at an engine trial was played, from a hose, into each particular ear and eye. What was left of me then took a feeble paddle in water that felt like ice, though its temperature...
...Advocate recently commented on the disturbances that occur too often in the Yard about midnight. A few men seem disposed to make "night higeous," and have succeeded admirably in the past; this is a little pleasantry that can be indulged in in perfect safety, and yet it is directly disagreeable to a good many quiet students, and we think the men themselves would feel indignant if treated in the same way. Indirectly it may do more mischief, and lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious...
...statement becomes evident in the necessary deduction that George III. and a Chinese bonze would both be men of high culture. If the writer will but allow me to invert his proposition, I can cordially agree; for it will ever be true that high moral character is the most perfect blossom of true culture. It is worthy of notice that the writer, after a peculiarly spiteful attack on Harvard men, defines culture as perfect sympathy "with every mood, passion, and failing in all ages and climes...