Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot too strongly condemn the rapidly growing custom of lauding immoderately our victorious teams, and trying to find excuses for them when defeated, instead of encouraging them more nearly to perfect themselves, in the first instance; and in the second, of striving to discover and rectify the causes of their non-success. A fault, to be corrected, must be known; and if we make a point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious...
...long examinations is quite as evident this year as it has ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully as you can in answer to each question...
...actual result is well known. Though the weather was perfect; though the arrangements were unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from...
...which seems to call for some notice, and that is that all punishments are left unreservedly in the hands of one officer of the Faculty. The severity or lightness with which he may inflict punishment for continual "cutting," for instance, is unrestricted by any bounds, and he is at perfect liberty to take away the privilege of voluntary recitations whenever he deems fit. This appears to us to be taxing one person with more responsibility than human nature is capable of bearing; especially when we remember that formerly punishments were carefully assigned for each class of neglect. Then a student...
...regretted that so foolish a habit as that of hurrying out of chapel was ever contracted. It is irreverent, to say the least, not to wait in perfect order and decorum until the prayer is entirely finished; such childish lack of courtesy as is frequently displayed in chapel gives any stranger who may happen to be present an unfavorable impression of the good breeding of the students. We trust that there will be no further cause of complaint on this score; for, whatever be our opinions as to the advisability of compulsory attendance at prayers, every sensible person will...