Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...complaints and suggestions of the undergraduates were listened to by the Faculty, that honorable body would have little peace, yet I think any one who is unprejudiced will acknowledge that the present method of assignment fails in the first object of all these systems, namely, to secure perfect justice to all. The injustice lies in this: A man who wants certain rooms, and who is blessed with a great many acquaintances not living in the college buildings, gets all of these men to make application for the rooms he wishes to have; and, in case one of his friends...
...necessary beards and wigs; the caller comes down stairs, ringing the bell before each dressing-room, and there at the right of the stage stands the manager, with all his machinery within reach and the whole theatre under his thumb, ready to give the signal. The system is perfect, - a head for each department, every man knowing just what his work is, and the whole as regular as a machine...
...reflection in the pond below you. You get the effect of infinite space below as well as above, - one sea of gold imperceptibly yet rapidly shifting into all the colors of the spectroscope. What wonderful massing of clouds, too! - Swiss mountains and glaciers with light and shadow perfect! Yes, it is getting dark, and it begins to rain. What? Tremont Street? Have I been dreaming? No; only looking at a collection of J. Foxcroft Cole's landscapes...
...large measure the success with which the occasion passed off. After singing "Auld Lang Syne" in the time-honored manner, the assembly broke up. We take this opportunity of expressing our gratification at the fact, frequently alluded to in the speeches of the evening, of the perfect friendship and good-will which have existed between the two papers during the past year, and to express the hope, the fulfilment of which we see no reason to doubt, that the same harmony and good feeling may prevail in the future...
...course is almost perfect. At the start there is a width of over a mile, and, at the finish, of thirteen hundred feet; thus, at no part, could even the wildest steering possibly cause a foul. The water is reported to be clear of all weeds and grasses, and also very deep, even close to the shore. A road follows the lake on one side, near the bank, and on the other the ground is so high that a view of the course can be had from almost any position. At the finish the banks form an amphitheatre, from which...