Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first meeting of the Harvard Shooting Club was held yesterday afternoon, and was in every way a success, The weather was perfect and the scores unusually good. The best shooting was done by McKay '92, who got twenty nine birds out of thirty shot at. The following is the score in detail for the Founders...
...best advantage. However, the performers did themselves more than justice in spite of all obstacles. To quote from one of the best New York newspapers: "It is hard to point out any weak points in last night's performance. The chorus, the principals, the acting and scenery were quite perfect and as for the music so many jolly well rendered tunes were never heard before at any amateur performance...
...same precision in touch and movement which has been the characteristic in the playing of the quartet marked their efforts last night; and the perfect harmony of the whole could not help but bring clearly out the force and exceptional superiority of the artists. The rendering of "Adagio manon troppo" of the first part of the programme and "Andante con moto" of the second part, deserves especial mention. To the running movement of the last, a singular charm was given by the grace of touch and execution...
...history of institutions. This gift numbering about three hundred volumes, can be considered as a supplement to a more valuable and a larger collection of works on the same subject, given to the library by Dr. Ross about one year ago. The former incomplete collection is now rendered almost perfect, and the library now possesses more works on this subject than any other library in the country. The books treat principally of the history and of the early political, civic and industrial institutions of mediaeval Germany, and will undoubtedly prove a great aid to students of history, political economy...
...Sargent's article on athletics tends to discourage men of unsymmetric form from athletics; but Mr. Dole says that no particular heed should be paid to whether your form is perfect or not. You want to make it so if it is not. Begin with this object, and keep on, and you will in time find yourself an athlete, big, brawny and strong...