Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussion of old comedy necessarily begins with its origin. According to Aristotle, comedy had its origin in the processions in honor of Dionysos. Slow in its growth, comedy attained a perfect form much later than did tragedy. Comedy thrived especially in the Dorian race. Megara in Greece and in Sicily became celebrated as the homes of comedy. Susarion, a Megarian, wandering to Attica with a band of players, established himself at Icaria and thus gave the first impulse to Attic comedy...
...glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling of divine and sensual love in their hearts. Thus Dante and Beatrice rise through the seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still led by the wonderful reflected light in the eyes of Beatrice, Dante...
...football next year, it will be on condition that the rules of the game will be so modified as to meet the approval of the Athletic Committee and while we believe that such modifications may be made with the cooperation of Yale, yet even if there should not be perfect agreement between the two universities on all points, we do not believe that Yale would refuse to meet Harvard on account of the adoption of a certain set of rules, if their adoption was the sole condition on which Harvard could place a university team in the field...
...instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older as a friend and profit by influences which are not felt in the lecture room; and where the perfect harmony of view may be established which will raise the standards of this University as nothing else can raise them. Many other good services to Harvard Phillips Brooks House will surely do, but none greater than this, and none which is more needed. We are reluctant to see the good postponed...
...maintains most dogmatically the perfect physical condition that will result from following out his lines of exercise which might arouse skepticism were his own life not a living example. The Outing Publishing Co., New York. Price...