Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Friday representatives from five colleges, Union, Hamilton, Rochester, Cornell and Hobart met at Utica to perfect a plan for the organizations of a New York State Inter-collegiate Baseball Association...
Representatives of Union, Hamilton, Rochester, Cornell, and Hobart Colleges met last week to perfect a plan of organization of a New York State Inter-collegiate Baseball Association. Charles. J. Walsh, of Cornell, was made Chairman, and C. D. Brown, of Rochester, Secretary. The plan agreed upon provides that each college shall maintain a home nine, and each nine shall play two games with every other nine for a trophy, the cost of which shall be borne equally. Each nine shall consist wholly of undergraduates of the college it represents, the penalty of evasion of this rule to be forfeiture...
...regattas of the Union club are useful whenever they can get anything to match our eight. When the last of June comes and the final races, our men have had many faults, which can only be ascertained in this way, eradicated, and therefore come to the scratch as nearly perfect as possible...
...been spent in loafing or something much worse. Larger numbers each year have taken advantage of the opportunities offered and a constantly increasing degree of health and strength is exhibited by the official figures each winter. The careful physical examinations have proved of great benefit, as leading men to perfect themselves in the parts where they are weakest. What is better still, is that this physical training and exercise is not confined to the members of selected teams and nines, but is open to and enjoyed by everyone, no matter how weak. Inducements for the latter to work...
...case in which the son of a Chinese clerk in a European's office at Canton came out second in the trial and was at once forwarded to the capital, there to become a mandarin of distinction. It should be fair; for the candidates enter at "The Gate of Perfect Equity," hand in their essays at "The Hall of Perfect Rectitude," see them sealed up in "The Hall of Restraint," and know that they are examined in "The Hall of Auspicious Stars...