Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received a perfect shower of Meteors from Rugby. The Eton College Chronicle has also reached us. The matter contained in these papers is of purely local interest; they are sporting journals of average merit, and as they make no pretence to literary excellence, it would be ungracious to criticise them further...
...second reason why many students give so little attention to their health is that they are ignorant of the construction of the human body, and of the "rules and regulations" necessary to be observed in order to keep this wonderful servant of the human will in perfect working condition. At home the majority of us learn only general maxims in this regard, such as, "Don't get in a perspiration and then stand in a draught," or "When you don't feel quite well omit a meal and give Nature a chance to recover"; but of the circulation...
...dreamy and romantic. I found Granada perfect, but unhappily Granada disagreed with me. I had been there but two days when my Moorish reveries began to be interrupted by - colic. I tried to walk it off. It was no use. The more I walked the worse was the pain, and finally I reluctantly yielded to fate, settled myself in a charming little room in the very shadow of the grand old Moorish palace, and determined to physic myself into a respectable physical state. I was quite alone. The picturesque Spaniards about me did not look like reliable medical authorities...
...than boxing, regarded as a method of gymnastic training; and it is really a useful accomplishment. Fencing trains the eye and will, develops the figure, throws back the shoulders, and gives a more erect and graceful carriage. In all European colleges, fencing is considered a most important element of perfect education. In the Swiss college towns, all riding-masters and maitres-d'armes are required to give lessons at half-price to the students. Harvard has taken the lead in adopting what is good in the management of European colleges; why not imitate them in encouraging the physical development...
...choose his tailor, is wrongfully confounded with him. Many a man who swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...