Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...universities and was rowed over the regular course, from Putney to Mortlake, four and a half miles. There was the usual immense crowd along the Thames to see the race, and the river was crowded with all kinds of craft, but the arrangements for keeping the course clear were perfect...
...have received a number of complaints to the effect that the CRIMSON is not delivered with perfect regularity. We wish it understood that such complaints are regarded as favors, since they offer us our only opportunity to judge of the efficiency of the service we have secured for the delivery of the paper. This service we would gladly take pains to improve, if only the direction for improvement were pointed...
...crew, for their part, are at least a unit, and it but remains for the undergraduates, one and all, to fall into line, in order that perfect harmony may reign. If the students would look at it in this light, namely, that, after all, they do not know quite as much on the subject of rowing as they think they do, and decidedly not as much as Mr. Watson, our coach; if they look at it in this light, perhaps they can accept his plans, his ideas and his methods in a manner becoming an undergraduate body and true Harvard...
...years ago and is still being presented at the Vaudeville, Theatre, where it was originally done. It is entirely dissimilar in construction and locality to any of the humorous plays lately presented in this country and as a study of laughter it is said to be the most perfect, not that kind of laughter that succumbs to buffoonery, but that which yields to pure, jovial fun evolved by legitimate methods from the supremely humorous complications originating from a well-told, consistent story...
...system of charitable work in Boston, which received its impulse from the organization of charities in London 30 years ago, is today the most perfect in the world. It aims to enlist personal effort and sympathy to cooperate with organization. Whether such an attempt can be successfully made in cities as large as New York and London is an unsolved problem...