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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prohibition of foot ball will come up for special consideration at the Faculty meeting, and the question will, in all probability be definitely decided. Our position on this subject is too well known to necessitate a repetition. We believe that the present game is certainly far from perfect, but we are confident that changes in the rules can and will be made to remedy the existing evils. What the students ask, is an opportunity to try their reforms. A fair opportunity, they think, was not offered them in the fall of '83. Moreover, since then, the circumstances have changed very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1885 | See Source »

First, two rivals, Messrs. Nostaw and Colonel, who both love Miss Harvard Crewel. Colonel is getting the best of it,-why, Nostaw has no show at all! Miss Crewel puts perfect confidence in Colonel, leaving poor Nostaw out in the cold entirely. What can Nostaw do? Colonel must be cut out-but how? Let us see. Nostaw has two friends. two very intimate friends, but neither of them is a minister-there's where the rub comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reversible Story. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

Such a book as the "Aegis" lets one into the college life as no other book could do. Containing, as the "Aegis" does, a little of everything, and the essence of that, it enables one to make a comparatively perfect picture of Dartmouth life, a picture that is of interest to us because Dartmouth life is much different from our own. The "Aegis" is published annually by editors from the junior class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Aegis, Dartmouth '86. | 12/16/1884 | See Source »

First. No amateur photographer can produce a perfect photograph. Some may excel in one point and others in another. Now by an interchange of opinions members can help each other in correcting their imperfections. There will be meetings held for this purpose and members will be expected to ask and answer questions about their work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. S. A. P. | 12/15/1884 | See Source »

...play, whatever may be said or written on the subject. But the chief advantage to be gained here in Harvard by such a club is that, should there be enough money in the treasury, a room provided with running water might be hired; for our sanitary arrangements are so perfect here, that although I pay over $250 for my room the only way that I can get water is from two sinks, one up stairs and one down, and both smelling so that I am glad I haven't got one in my room. There are other gains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/8/1884 | See Source »

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