Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exercise afforded by the lacrosse team. In spite of the general call for candidates made by the lacrosse men very few out of the large number of desirable athletes chose to come out and practice. This was a great mistake. The simple principles of lacrosse do very much to perfect a player in the points requisite for foot-ball, while they give him a test of speed and endurance necessary for track athletics. One of the most brilliant and successful players of last year's Princeton team owes his preeminence in dodging to his lacrosse training. Princeton has already waked...
...esteem of Harvard, and if one chances to have married a Yale man, after he has been to one of these dinners, he quietly airs his clothes, says little about it, and passes it over as smoothly as possible. They think Yale is a little rough and the only perfect man is a Harvard graduate...
...thoroughly revised in order that it may be as complete and satisfactory as possible. To this end the superintendent would be pleased to receive any suggestions from members concerning additions or corrections in the list. It is also the desire of the superintendent of the society to systematise and perfect the business methods of the society during the coming year as much as possible. The chief and almost the only cause of complaint that has heretofore been heard against the society has been concerning the delays in the delivery of books. The management hope to obviate this difficulty...
...recent criticism of Salvini's "Lear" says : "Despite the classic elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
...education in Columbia College. "For fifteen years" he says, "a few women have attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...